I never said religions have no purpose. The problem is that religions serve all the WRONG purposes. And that's good enough reason for me to be atheist - I would prefer not believing in anything than believing in wrong.
As for your insult - I prefer being a fool than a sheep.
Often misused, definitely. But that does not invalidate the importance of any tool, including data mining.
One good example is Netflix recommendation engine. I know it's far from perfect (as there is nothing perfect about prediction), but is it useful? Hell yeah. It's the best recommendation engine I have used and have benefited greatly from.
Problem is when it's applied to areas where stacks are higher - like risk analysis by the investment banks.
And that brings me to mention an interesting (old) and related read - "Fooled by randomness" by Naseem Taleb.
Nothing new there. The risk analysis used by most of the wall street firm to calculate their risk exposure is doing just that. And we all know how that turned out to be.
Repeat after me: Apple is anti-competitive. Apple is anti-competitive. Apple is anti-competitive. Apple is anti-competitive. Apple is anti-competitive.
I know you do not even deserve a reply on that cheap shot - but here it goes anyway. I have a sports car and I don't use TV (*sniggers*), I have a 100" 1080p projector. Now go back to sleep or your mama will come looking for you. But I don't buy things just to look cool and hip - because I have way too much self-repsect than run of the mill fanbois like you.
Very similar to this other entrepreneur I met the other day. She is using ipad for just two hours and said she is not wiping her ass anymore, because she never really did - and ipad helped her not wiping it anyway.
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The irony in this comment is that it can be applied to either of the two Steves. Just saying.
Here come the fanbois.
I observed the same. Seems to me the comments are all ordered by uid (and not timestamp), and AC comes first in the sort order?
Any reference to David Pogue and you lose all your credibility of talking about any gadget.
You are wrong on multiple levels.
I never said religions have no purpose. The problem is that religions serve all the WRONG purposes. And that's good enough reason for me to be atheist - I would prefer not believing in anything than believing in wrong.
As for your insult - I prefer being a fool than a sheep.
Correction. you forgot "=" sign.
Religion = FAIL
Seems a lot of farms are drying up on facebook.
Often misused, definitely. But that does not invalidate the importance of any tool, including data mining.
One good example is Netflix recommendation engine. I know it's far from perfect (as there is nothing perfect about prediction), but is it useful? Hell yeah. It's the best recommendation engine I have used and have benefited greatly from.
Problem is when it's applied to areas where stacks are higher - like risk analysis by the investment banks.
And that brings me to mention an interesting (old) and related read - "Fooled by randomness" by Naseem Taleb.
Nothing new there. The risk analysis used by most of the wall street firm to calculate their risk exposure is doing just that. And we all know how that turned out to be.
>> T-mobile doesn't support tethering
Are you sure about that? I remember seeing a help page on their site on how to tether a BB - though it was 3 years back.
The Apple Fanbois Universe.
Offtopic: I am still trying to figure out how my above comment can be either troll or funny.
Repeat after me....
Repeat after me: Apple is anti-competitive. Apple is anti-competitive. Apple is anti-competitive. Apple is anti-competitive. Apple is anti-competitive.
I get it. It's like defending a murder by pointing out at all the people the murder DID NOT kill!? Brilliant!
WTF? PC are already no more relevant? Oh.. I see.. Which future year you are from?
It's "Gandhi".
I do to to bed with my t60, which is a laptop. What has this article has to do specifically with ipad, again?
I know you do not even deserve a reply on that cheap shot - but here it goes anyway. I have a sports car and I don't use TV (*sniggers*), I have a 100" 1080p projector. Now go back to sleep or your mama will come looking for you. But I don't buy things just to look cool and hip - because I have way too much self-repsect than run of the mill fanbois like you.
'Normals'? 'Far too techie'? What a douchebag you are!
Yeah. Why pay 400$ when you can pay 500$ and can't do things you can do with that other _cheaper_ device, huh? Fucking 'normals'.
Very similar to this other entrepreneur I met the other day. She is using ipad for just two hours and said she is not wiping her ass anymore, because she never really did - and ipad helped her not wiping it anyway.
WTF? When did we change history on Apple's blatant theft from Xerox?
Right on. And to be able to do 'just' that, they don't need get a loan and buy a shiny new toy.
He came out well in there? If Woz had any contribution to Apple, I think Steve came out worse by claiming to have created something. What an ass.
Don't spoil their silly dreams, them Apple fanbois. We need them to make fun of.
But seriously, I underrated them. If they want to defend Steve Jobs on this, I pity them.
>> Gizmodo, you run a decent gadget blog
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