>instead of a small genetic modification that will >allow you to just sit around and eat all you like >and not gain a gram of fat like some other people >you know. >
New Bio-techs are hot on the heels of bringing to market polymers that are receptive and absorb molecules, proteins, toxins, whatever... to protect your body from that which ails you. You just consume ice cream and pop poly-pills to prevent your body from converting it into fat. The fat is bound to the polymer which excrements in the waste stream. No cost future tech.
"... if grad students can do it, why not undergrads?"
Obviously, this from someone who hasn't bootstrapped a.com startup in his life. Hiring costs are less than 1/10th expense of a start-up. There's cost of software licenses, hardware, work surfaces, communications, bandwidth and little things like business licenses and attorney fees. Even Yahoo's protect IP.
The rest of the article is littered with false premises and bullshit... move on.
Its worse...much worse than the dicotomy of economics argument. I CS'd 1977 went back to Columbia U 1990 to catch up and found the curriculum hijacked by Industry. Money flowed into the CS programme to support "types" of CS graduates Industry demanded. "MS certified" was the holy grail for graduates to find a job. Profs. sold-out to further their own personal interests rather than be tagged idealists and fight the system. "What good is a University if it doesn't meet the needs of the community it serves"... was the standard retort.
3 degrees separation AT BEST is all ASOT enjoys from Steve. Yes, he's heard all the ad hominim mantras Steve uses to focus their minds.
Watching/. for his ASOT moniker to come up to overwhelm the "geeks" (!Knowledge) is all ego strapping. Give this unemployed schmuck one cycle through the product release and his psuedo-knowledge goes brittle.
ASOT is truly entertaining, like ARS TECH feigning objective shakedown of TIGER. Both have inside access, so its entertaining and informative journalism.
are a reflection of the corporations who design them. Asking Microsoft to implement the spec "cars that can't crash", begs the solution "remove the wetware"
to this "It just works" uses Apple's Steve Jobs haiku for their own gain. It's akin to having Apple carry MS's water for them.
If MS is able to pull this heist-off, their monopoly is an all consuming field that simply absorbs any penetration at the fringes and morphs it back into the field again. McLuhan through and through.
Hardware-centric OSes are decendant. The war for the desktop is at Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL level now.
Search-centric OSes usher in Web-hosted clients and 24/7 presence on the net. Standalone OS is irrelevent when an input device and screen is all that's needed for *your stuff* from anywhere, anytime. The network is the computer and MS will stand to own the lion's share with BrandX's (Apple, HP, Moto etc...) providing hardware-centric non-network services.
... missing in LED's. I hated LED lights until my Jeep came with reading lights. A cluster of WHT-GRN-ORG emits a chromatic spectra that resembles incandescant light. Really useful and easy to read white pages under this chroma.
Boulderdash... every Apple store I've visited has had either a "Don't Touch" sign on their mini's or the LCD turned off. All are orphaned to a standalone table with usually peripherals alongside.
...in Retail the PC is responsible for customer wait times at the checkout counter - compared to 20 years ago transactions depended only on the skill of the cashier not PC software....in Automotive service car repairs require as long as 20 mins. for a Service Writer who's sole job is only to intake cars and enter their problems into the computer - compared to 20 years ago the car got dropped off someone took the keys and you were on your way 10 mins max....in Healthcare PC's stop your every point of progress through the system to verify your birthdate, name and address - compared to 20 years ago a nurse asked what you needed to see a doctor for took 5 mins.
Flickr enabled my subscription to remain private - whereupon I was able to build an entirely bespoke web portal based upon Italian architecture. Yahoo! would never allow user control of the interface - in un-corporate of their culture.
You can damn bet you'll be able to kiss that all goodbye.
when all they purport is feature list and sign-up sheet. Yahoo! just can't find their user's heart without copying Flickr, eBlog, iTune, etc... Give me something original Yahoo!
seller with the newspaper brokering the exchange. NYTimes simply haven't innovated the medium to meet the needs of their sellers. WSJ's manual fill-out cards for corporate reports has the highest fulfillment rate which automating would only decrease its effectiveness.
Micropayments presages the same problem where if everything is priced (ie. automated) then nothing provides a discriminator for the seller and buyer to find each other.
that limits their ability to innovate, compete and add valuable services and features people could find worth buying (read currency).
Yahoo, Google, MSN, etc... mean different things to different people depending upon *how* they have chosen to use these free-portals of information/communication.
Yahoo should tightly couple their systems to users by leveraging differing user's contexts in client-side interfaces. My personal *entry* point into Yahoo is at mail.yahoo.com. Many enter at search.yahoo.com. By Maximizing the User experience Yahoo can trump the features war to develop its brand.
I like Google for its quick response and easy to use interface which rivals desktop applications for convenience. Google gets the value of the users experience. Google is earning my loyalty with its "no spam" mail portal and "simple" search portal.
I can see a point where Yahoo might lose its importance to users if the presence of competing products achieve like ubiquity
Best Browser on Windows... more fun than Apple's Safari (but a memory hog) on Mac's and a damn good reason to think of the browser is the OS. Kudos to this team for bringing functionality and productivity back to users.
Strategically, brilliant acquisition..
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Apple to Buy TiVo?
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Apple can build an Operating System around such a juggernaut, the likes of which Comcast, Fox, Disney, Sony et. al. will beat a path to its franchise for access to their platform.
Steve gets to owns two layers with TiVO+Apple - the hardware + brokering its consumption (er - access).
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>instead of a small genetic modification that will
>allow you to just sit around and eat all you like
>and not gain a gram of fat like some other people
>you know.
>
New Bio-techs are hot on the heels of bringing to market polymers that are receptive and absorb molecules, proteins, toxins, whatever... to protect your body from that which ails you. You just consume ice cream and pop poly-pills to prevent your body from converting it into fat. The fat is bound to the polymer which excrements in the waste stream. No cost future tech.
"... if grad students can do it, why not undergrads?"
.com startup in his life. Hiring costs are less than 1/10th expense of a start-up. There's cost of software licenses, hardware, work surfaces, communications, bandwidth and little things like business licenses and attorney fees. Even Yahoo's protect IP.
Obviously, this from someone who hasn't bootstrapped a
The rest of the article is littered with false premises and bullshit... move on.
Its worse...much worse than the dicotomy of economics argument. I CS'd 1977 went back to Columbia U 1990 to catch up and found the curriculum hijacked by Industry. Money flowed into the CS programme to support "types" of CS graduates Industry demanded. "MS certified" was the holy grail for graduates to find a job. Profs. sold-out to further their own personal interests rather than be tagged idealists and fight the system. "What good is a University if it doesn't meet the needs of the community it serves"... was the standard retort.
Industry owns this one, lock stock and barrel.
3 degrees separation AT BEST is all ASOT enjoys from Steve. Yes, he's heard all the ad hominim mantras Steve uses to focus their minds.
/. for his ASOT moniker to come up to overwhelm the "geeks" (!Knowledge) is all ego strapping. Give this unemployed schmuck one cycle through the product release and his psuedo-knowledge goes brittle.
Watching
ASOT is truly entertaining, like ARS TECH feigning objective shakedown of TIGER. Both have inside access, so its entertaining and informative journalism.
are a reflection of the corporations who design them. Asking Microsoft to implement the spec "cars that can't crash", begs the solution "remove the wetware"
http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GD28Ak01.html
See:http://www.scrippshealth.com/
Who copied from someone else...
to this "It just works" uses Apple's Steve Jobs haiku for their own gain. It's akin to having Apple carry MS's water for them.
If MS is able to pull this heist-off, their monopoly is an all consuming field that simply absorbs any penetration at the fringes and morphs it back into the field again. McLuhan through and through.
Hardware-centric OSes are decendant. The war for the desktop is at Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL level now.
Search-centric OSes usher in Web-hosted clients and 24/7 presence on the net. Standalone OS is irrelevent when an input device and screen is all that's needed for *your stuff* from anywhere, anytime. The network is the computer and MS will stand to own the lion's share with BrandX's (Apple, HP, Moto etc...) providing hardware-centric non-network services.
... missing in LED's. I hated LED lights until my Jeep came with reading lights. A cluster of WHT-GRN-ORG emits a chromatic spectra that resembles incandescant light. Really useful and easy to read white pages under this chroma.
ZDnet:"...the company sold $483m worth of iMacs, eMacs and Mac Minis, down from $620m in the December quarter..." pure Boulderdash!
Boulderdash... every Apple store I've visited has had either a "Don't Touch" sign on their mini's or the LCD turned off. All are orphaned to a standalone table with usually peripherals alongside.
Don't believe everything you read!
This robot squirts 4" wall increments. Gimme a break...
/. coverage.
Germany has styrofoam blocks that set-up entire house walls in one day. Of course, US UBC precludes its use.
The 24 Hour House Project, San Diego 1983, is proof that it is not lack of technology holding back cost or productivity.
Styrofoam isn't sexy, requires no skill and eliminates jobs. Robotics is just sexy, hence
free the GPL free yourselves.
1st NeXT computers were Export restricted because of their DSP capability.
2nd NeXT Elipitical Encryption was restricted
3rd Apple DRM-Fairplay is
Cryptography is the Third rail of computing.
/. moderation has devolved into valuing content into the digital equivalent of FunnyPages for Geeks.
is the Kiss of Death. It happened to NeXT Computers and Jobs knows what it means to have a platform highjacked by all knowing God's of Computing.
Jobs will not tolerate Guru's and there won't be any free Powerbooks to get the *Cool Factor* built off them either.
...in Retail the PC is responsible for customer wait times at the checkout counter - compared to 20 years ago transactions depended only on the skill of the cashier not PC software. ...in Automotive service car repairs require as long as 20 mins. for a Service Writer who's sole job is only to intake cars and enter their problems into the computer - compared to 20 years ago the car got dropped off someone took the keys and you were on your way 10 mins max. ...in Healthcare PC's stop your every point of progress through the system to verify your birthdate, name and address - compared to 20 years ago a nurse asked what you needed to see a doctor for took 5 mins.
innovation in Flickr 'cuz that what Yahoo's do.
Flickr enabled my subscription to remain private - whereupon I was able to build an entirely bespoke web portal based upon Italian architecture. Yahoo! would never allow user control of the interface - in un-corporate of their culture.
You can damn bet you'll be able to kiss that all goodbye.
when all they purport is feature list and sign-up sheet. Yahoo! just can't find their user's heart without copying Flickr, eBlog, iTune, etc... Give me something original Yahoo!
user@yahoo.com -> snailmail gateway
user@yahoo.com -> Fax gateway
user@yahoo.com -> SMS gateway
user@yahoo.com -> beeper gateway (myairmail.com)
DistributionLists:
user@yahoo.com -> Photo gateway via snailmail
Yahoo! could be a real dashboard but for the blinding adcentricity of their developers and UIdesigners.
seller with the newspaper brokering the exchange. NYTimes simply haven't innovated the medium to meet the needs of their sellers. WSJ's manual fill-out cards for corporate reports has the highest fulfillment rate which automating would only decrease its effectiveness.
Micropayments presages the same problem where if everything is priced (ie. automated) then nothing provides a discriminator for the seller and buyer to find each other.
that limits their ability to innovate, compete and add valuable services and features people could find worth buying (read currency).
Yahoo, Google, MSN, etc... mean different things to different people depending upon *how* they have chosen to use these free-portals of information/communication.
Yahoo should tightly couple their systems to users by leveraging differing user's contexts in client-side interfaces. My personal *entry* point into Yahoo is at mail.yahoo.com. Many enter at search.yahoo.com. By Maximizing the User experience Yahoo can trump the features war to develop its brand.
I like Google for its quick response and easy to use interface which rivals desktop applications for convenience. Google gets the value of the users experience. Google is earning my loyalty with its "no spam" mail portal and "simple" search portal.
I can see a point where Yahoo might lose its importance to users if the presence of competing products achieve like ubiquity
Best Browser on Windows... more fun than Apple's Safari (but a memory hog) on Mac's and a damn good reason to think of the browser is the OS. Kudos to this team for bringing functionality and productivity back to users.
Apple can build an Operating System around such a juggernaut, the likes of which Comcast, Fox, Disney, Sony et. al. will beat a path to its franchise for access to their platform.
Steve gets to owns two layers with TiVO+Apple - the hardware + brokering its consumption (er - access).
"three times the power of existing Lithium Ion batteries at the same price and with recharge times measured in a few minutes rather than hour"
Isn't this just another form of condenser?