thedragon4453

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by thedragon4453 7y ago
> That being said, I have seen several people claiming "I was fired/removed/banned for having opinion X" and in MOST of those cases my view was that they were at a minimum being very insensitive on multiple occasions.
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by thedragon4453 14y ago
I know an entrepreneur that bought a well known franchise. He told me he worked without a day off for the first year before finally taking a Sunday off. My gut was to call bullshit. Employees around from that time confirm. He's very success
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by thedragon4453 14y ago
Yeah, I don't really trust this. I don't see how: "We're doing our own thing that we totally control and will likely only show up in our products" is better than "We're contributing to one of the best/most successful opensource projects aro
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by thedragon4453 14y ago
A blog almost never grabs me immediately. Usually, if I get sent back there a time or two, I subscribe. If I can't subscribe, you have to have some extraordinary content for me to return. As in "man I've got to read as much as I have time f
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by thedragon4453 14y ago
This is kinda the rough spot for me too. Google services are just so damned convenient. Especially with the integration. I noticed the same thing you have. Computer dies? No big, fix it and sign into Chrome. I'm 90% there. However, with Rea
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by thedragon4453 14y ago
For that particular need, I'd expect that I'm rolling my own, or using a service provided by my business or something. At the very least, I'd assume that I'm paying for it, and even then, when you get to that level, you probably want to jus
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by thedragon4453 14y ago
I disagree. I think that there are probably no more than 5 kids flying by themselves on any given flight. I'm not even expecting a 1:1 ratio - I expect that for those 5 kids, there is maybe 1 person in charge of them. Those 5 kids are gener
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by thedragon4453 14y ago
$150 isn't enough to make sure the kid gets to their connection or someone calls the parents when something goes wrong?
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by thedragon4453 14y ago
No, not really actually. They went to several carriers and Cingular was the only one that would deal with what apple wanted, and that was reluctant. Google could have pushed harder, but they miscalculated.
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by thedragon4453 14y ago
Well, that depends. I had the same reaction, and my thought was to basically go the opensource route, but some products almost have to be replaced with a company. Products I use from Google: * Search - replace with duck duck go * Chrome - F
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by thedragon4453 15y ago
I think there are several problems with Best Buy. * only seems to stock the cheap crap with high markup. You quickly learn to avoid this (looking at you, monster cable.) * Staff is not knowledgeable. There is not a lot of imperative to buy
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by thedragon4453 15y ago
I doubt that just for the fact that IE comes with bing as default. I don't think enough people actually care to change it. I would not be surprised to see it higher, but I highly doubt greater than 80%.
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by thedragon4453 15y ago
IANAL, but in the US whether you actually hold a monopoly is the key. I think it would be bough to show that Google holds a monopoly in this space. They definitely command the biggest market share, but I'm not sure it would be enough to sho
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by thedragon4453 15y ago
Definitely like the second part. It would seem that if you aren't actually using your patent, the patent's purpose is lost. I also think there should be oversight on the patents that are granted. Right now you can patent something that has
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by thedragon4453 15y ago
Because it's not really defensible. The best you could say is that Apple stands to make money, which is good for Apple, but even that's not really true, since everyone is just pulling the buttons so they don't have to pay Apple.
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by thedragon4453 16y ago
Agreed. Kindle makes the most sense as a dedicated reader, and indeed if that were all I were using it for, then the Kindle would win. The compelling thing about the iPad, for me at least, is that it isn't just a reader.