User: flokati

Hearing aids?

On: Why Google Hired Ray Kurzweil

"[A technology that] turns up the volume for an elderly person with hearing loss."

...

A hearing aid?

Flannel?

On: The Mac In the Gray Flannel Suit

You mean wool? Unless we're talking about corporate pajamas...

Re:Traveling while Muslim or Middle Eastern

On: Examining the Search and Seizure of Electronics at Airports

+5 Insightful!?!?! Sounds like you only hang out with people like yourself, and the only Muslims you can name are in Al Qaeda. I can see that from your limited point of view how you'd think that all (many, most, 1%, whatever) Muslims are terrorists, but that is simply not true. Same goes for your other trite examples.

Re:convenience, not DRM

On: Solving DRM in the BitTorrent Age

Also, technical references are so much better in book-bound form. Electronic and printed/ringbound just don't cut it for quickly looking stuff up.

I would say that the primary benefit of an electronic format is quickly looking stuff up.

Re:What do you wish YOUR ancestors recorded for yo

On: Microsoft's "Immortal Computing" Project

when I see some of the very rare pioneering colour film from the Edwardian period it seems a lot easier to relate to as the past being a real place than it does in black and white

My kids won't be able to relate to my standard definition, 4:3 ratio childhood.

Fonts and serifs?

On: Is it Time for Open Office?

This way the fonts and serifs are perfect, increasing readability dramatically.

I think the "fonts and serifs" will be just fine, printing from anything that supports fonts and printers. Maybe you mean kerning, tracking, or leading? Surely not serifs.

Re:Flawed model

On: Doomsday Clock To Advance

Clocks don't run backwards.

I think that's a good point. The model should be something that measures the degree of something... like a thermometer. 100 C is destruction by nuclear war. What's the Doomsday temperature today? Maybe 99.7 C. Of course, this method would have a baseline, maybe 0 C. Would 0 C mean no threat? I guess it was 0 C up until nuclear bombs were invented. How would that be represented using time? Yesterday? The big bang? I've got to stop typing.

Re:$3 Million Dollars?

On: FTC Fines Zango $3 Million

It means the fine was assessed in square dollars. They should just be thankful they didn't hit them with a 3M cubic dollar fine.

Shameless plug

On: 'Tower of Babel' Translator Under Development

I helped build the Tower of Babel

Tagging Beta

On: The Death of Privacy

I can see me in a few months, "What was that story that came to an obvious conclusion? Oh yeah, I'll just search for 'duh'!"

Re:ya but....

On: SanDisk Releases New iPod rival

...and fighting Christopher Walken, Jet Li, the Rock, and an army of robot sharks with rocket-packs

When I think of fighters, I think of Christopher Walken. Then maybe Jet Li or the Rock. But Christopher Walken first.

Re:Lottery

On: Walk in Space for $15 Million (Plus Airfare)

Or you could just enter a $15M lottery.

I think you mean Jobs's

On: Jobs' Glass Elevator Locks in Group Customers

Jobs isn't the plural of Job.

Mirage Innovations Logo == Walkman Logo

On: Would You Wear Video Glasses?

It does.

dozens?

On: Electric Car Faster Than A Ferrari or Porsche

This is stupid. For a couple reasons. How many upper-middle class folks are environmentalists or gadget obsessed geeks? Dozens!

Is 12 supposed to be a big number?

Type Managers...

On: 'Type Manager' The File Manager of Tomorrow?

are full of use!

I think ConterSpy should be CounterSpy

On: Spyware Maker Sues Detection Firm

I think ConterSpy should be CounterSpy.

If anyone wants to conter this post, feel free.

Re:Grand

On: New Golden Age for Outside-the-Box Startups?

I think the point is that gluing together different technologies is so cheap and easy, these companies don't need VC.

ViolatedTaco

On: Blizzard Made Me Change My Name

I think ViolatedTaco has a nice ring to it.