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a tip
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an alternative focusIt seems the natural input systems (sight, hearing) have a far greater bandwith than the natural output systems (visible motion, speech).
Perhaps the more appropriate question is what conditioning might be involved in making existing mechanisms more efficiently related to whatever output mechanism (neural interface) is chosen to augment natural output systems.
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Re:silly question
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Re:silly questionI now apparently advocate extremely dynamic spelling schemes.
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silly question10 Gb is rediculous. 640K should be enough for anyone.
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21st centuryFlight and tunneling would be nicer.
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possible solutionsso then... next time maybe don't x-ray your coke?
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mistaken premiseI think the op-ed partially misses the point.
The slowdown in certain areas of the software industry is equivalent to what one would expect in any industry in which large majorities of the potential consumer base have been reached.
This is aspect is not software specific- Starbucks will not increase its size by multiple stores a day forever. They can still make lots of coffee until the sun explodes, but the rate of growth must decline, as must business specific to the expansion itself. Microsoft's dividend, by itself, is not indicative of decline so much as reduced anticipated rate of growth.
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competing technologyThe shift toward exclusive cellphone use has been eroding the landline market for several years now.
The number of US landline phones declined by 5 million since 2000, while 7.5 million people overall have made the switch to exclusive cellphone use in the US.
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posting at its best