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Your questions are awful questions. It is much more important to focus on what he is doing now, which is bigger than what he has done in the past. He is actually helping millions of people around the world now, and you want to focus on what he did in business 20-30 years ago.

Of course he was over aggressive in his running of Microsoft in the past. Does it matter if he says so? Or does it matter what he does today with his billions?

Down for me, you can read the documents, but can't see the animationed gifs:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=firefox-...

WTF is a technologist?

It is always relative for public transport. You get people in New York and London whinging about having to wait 6 minutes for the next train, because they just missed one. Coming from an area where we would have buses every hour if you were lucky, this seemed ludicrous, but I started to feel the same way after 6 months.

Do they have free coffee at Yuca's?

> Our culture is so completely and utterly obsessed with money that everyone says he's an idiot for taking down an app without realizing the chaos one goes through in a situation like that.

It is not obsession with money, it is just confusion over it. I mean, it isn't that hard to ignore all the bad comments and emails, and a small price to pay for riches. There must be something else going on, and that is the bit that is frustrating, not knowing.

Of course, it is completely up to him, and this is in no way justification for awful comments or messages to the dev.

> We teamed up with HP, Toshiba, NEC and Fujitsu, all of whom spent millions alongside Microsoft, and failed to create a bona fide category at the time. Why? “Tablet PCs,” as they were known, required a stylus (versus today’s touch-interaction model), and more importantly, only had a few tablet-optimized apps. We now know that’s a recipe for disaster.

Yeah, and even more importantly they cost $2000 to $3000, and were very big and heavy.

> My love affair with the tablet isn't over: I love how it lets me browse the web, read books and magazines, and watch videos in bed after a long day. That's probably how most people use their tablets — secondary devices, mainly for entertainment.

That is how most people use their computers.

They also hobbled the functionality so you could not get digital recordings from the device. Lots of DJs, producers, etc... wanted to use it to record live music sessions, then transfer them to their machine at home.

This is when Sony fucked themselves, they went from an amazing electronics company, to a content producing company with a shitty electronics side. All the decisions were made by the content side. This is when they started their slide.

It is awful to think about, when you read about the origins of Sony, and how much they were revered for producing top of the line stuff in the 70s, 80s and 90s.

I know, it is like comparing Apples and Oranges, two other similar fruits that are very comparable.

Every single olympics, there is dire warnings before hand, things will not be ready. There are guaranteed huge traffic problems, not enough volunteers or infrastructure.

Then as soon as it starts, all is forgotten, it is a wonderful time, the best Olympics ever, greatest world records broken, the best Olympians ever.

As soon as they wrote their letter, praising themselves for changing the world, and talking about sending the lawyers I moved from their side.

How is this much different than the "Candy" "Saga" situation?

You understand that these moves came about because stuff like it actually happened in real life?

The film Erin Brockovich is one example.

Who are these people, and why are they not being named?

Very interesting read. But it seems like a big gamble to buy 8 copies and take 2 weeks off of work, in the hopes that this would all make any money. A big gamble paid off.

Do you actually have any skin in the game? I mean, are you someone who this would affect your income?

Because it is very easy to suggest this, when there is no downsides to you.

Now, as a developer and game creator, I do have some fish in the boat, but I also agree that a 20 year limit should exist.

No, it does not. It is good to be able to play around with the code, but to require someone to see the code working it is overkill.

To be fair, this guy did talk about politicians power being limited, not abolishing the government. There are clearly good things we should take out of libertarianism, which is why most people join these fringe movements.

1) I guess we shouldn't try to implement anything, because if it was a viable business model, someone would have already done it, right? You can used this argument against anything.

This is the perfect time for people who actually work, so most people with a disposable income.

Obviously you can't show off css in the same browser window as your text, that would be insane. No, you have to load up a completely different website, that makes much more sense.

Texting an apology is never the best idea anyway, even without Apple messing it up.

This is not a solution if you live outside of the USA.

I noticed this over the last 2 weeks. I switched my mobile data off, and now I don't get SMS from my friends until I return home.

Nice one Apple.

Very common in Cricket as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelfth_Man

> What about a co-working space? Prices range from $400-800/mo depending on space

That is so damn expensive. I used to use one, near the heart of London (Farringdon), and it was £50 a month.

> Contrary to gloating from Apple fans

This isn't necessary, and cheapens a good point.

> This deal now creates a solid competitor to Samsung.

Samsung has solid competitors with strong global brands. You have Sony, which has been around for a long time. You also have LG, HTC, and a lot of other lesser known brands. You have Amazon, BN in the Tablet space.

Not sure what the cheap shots at Apple and Apple fans have to do with this discussion.

I don't think that is the lesson, I think the lesson is that it is clearly a two person job. One person to carry the wafers, the other person to remove and hazards/ open doors/ double check everything.

Ha, nice one. Whenever I start a new job, the first thing I do is create a backup of the database, because I have done something similar before. Backup everything the first day, onto your own machine.

> It's not a corporate policy. I've personally had hours-long study sessions at McDonalds restaurants with just a drink purchase.

Just because it is not enforced where you are, does not mean it is not corporate policy. It can also depend on how busy the McDonalds is, I can imagine when it is after lunch, and the store is almost empty, they aren't going to kick anyone out.

How will this be any different?