What does it mean when you can't answer the question properly and said "4.5"?
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For many years I watched the bloatware that totally ruined the user experience, especially at the turn of the century.
Can Microsoft make quality hardware to compliment their software and in turn make their software feel "better" to the many of those who have turned away from it? They have the capital to figure it out.
The only "huge negative impact" that I can see from this is pushing the hardware manufacturers to innovate harder and do better with the use and distribution of the software. It is going to thin the herd for sure. I think this is necessary for Microsoft to gain some control over the user experience.
Yes, resellers and hardware manufacturers helped make Microsoft the huge corporation it is today, but the time has come. I think Microsoft only has to gain from this--if they do the hardware right.
But, the problem is they have not proven they can monetize those users efficiently and effectively yet.
I remember when everyone questioned how Google was going to monetize on their traffic and they figured it out and hopefully FB will too.
The one interesting thing that is a big difference between Google and FB though is that Google had "traffic" and FB has a group of people hanging out so to speak. You would think that FB has the better potential to maximize monetization of customers, but how remains to be seen.
I would easily pay $1000 to $1500 a month.
It would as affordable as an Amtrak pass and just as convenient.
The possibilities for those who don't want to move to another city for work but want to broaden their options (or course if your salary range allows--but if you are making 100k or more it is brilliant).
"Several such balls have dropped in southern Africa, Australia and Latin America in the past twenty years, authorities found in an Internet search."
I haven't heard of this and have they identified what the origin of the other "several such balls" was?
"The buying and selling of stock by corporate insiders who have access to non-public information that could affect the stock price can be a criminal offense, just ask hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam who recently got 11 years in prison for doing it. But, congressional lawmakers have no corporate responsibilities and have long been considered exempt from insider trading laws, even though they have daily access to non-public information and plenty of opportunities to trade on it."
I'd like to see a scale of it commercialized for us non-farming types so then profits can help a philanthropic mission like bringing low-tech irrigation to third world countries in need.
"The patent describes an invisible infrared sensor integrated into mobile iOS devices with a built-in camera — which includes iPhones, the iPod Touch and iPad 2. As the Apple patent explains, an infrared sensor in a mobile phone could be used to search for another signal that would say whether it is O.K. to activate and record footage with the phone’s camera."
And, agreed that a price tag of $100 a head, if you will, is cheap in terms of value for marketing and recruiting/employment services.
On a side note, how I let this fall from my radar to get in on the rush at the bell and sell by lunch is beyond me. I hope others here weren't so lazy and picked up some cash.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb_PyKuI7II
"Get Perpendicular" Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.
BTW, longest podcast intro music ever and the guy speaking sounds like Seth Rogen
The idea for the interview seemed to have stemmed from a report that was in the Wikileaks cables leak.
I know this isn't real "hacker news", but as many in the community are in CA, it may be of interest.
UPDATE 2: Received contact from a nice woman at the district's Information Technology Office and she informed me that she sent the request to someone who can help at "GBN"...
=)
Logically your reaction will be heck no because you can do it yourself and keep all the money to yourself, but you have just then created a paradox because this is exactly what makes you execute and seems to be what is preventing you.
That was all in hypothetical fun of course but I think would work in practice. Sometimes people don't need to find or "hire" co-founders, rather a "boss". But to overcome your biggest challenge, which is yourself, @JonnieCache and others here definitely know what they are talking about.
Try and put religious arguments aside (while this will have some overtones) for a moment and work with me here and not throw the notion of time having no beginning or end which is equally frustrating to comprehend.
Reverse the creation story and you wind up at the beginning with light and darkness. Before light there was darkness or nothing.
But what was before the "darkness" or nothingness? The religious will say God whom has no beginning or no end, but how did God or energy pop into to existence if there was nothing?
Then, put yourself in God or energy's place... You are in a "space" with nothing around you... everything is void... Then where did "you" come from?
I know this is linear thought and time and the universe should not be considered in this way many in the field of science and mathematics explain... I understand the many dimensions that are possible and how time should be viewed, but it still doesn't answer the question of how something, anything came of nothing...
This article and the discussions below are truly one of the more fascinating topics to be had.
It is always great to read amazing topics submitted to HN (which is a large portion of the point here, right?) and to read comments for better understanding and discussion (which is the other potion here), but to have both an intriguing article matched with equally thought-provoking and explorative discussion is a complete intellectual gem.