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  • Commented on Gods and genre
    "But in real life John Waynes tend to either get their asses badly kicked multiple times or end up being completely marginalized characters eking out a low-status subsistence on the fringes. " Pretty bold statement. The public facing personas of...
  • Commented on YAPC::NA 2014 keynote: Programming Perl in 2034
    "gets you 256 terabytes. Just loading that much data from disk at 1000Mbit/sec would take almost a month. " i did that last night, so no, it doesn't. Why would you load it at 1000Mb/sec? Of course my system is...
  • Commented on Amazon: malignant monopoly, or just plain evil?
    Vendor/retailer interfaces have been rationalized just not for book publishers. This is just another example of how the publishing industry is 25 years behind from a technology perspective, and why they are losing and failing to compete. I once consulted...
  • Commented on Vacation
    the ariboat tours of the everglades are remarkably neat...
  • Commented on A footnote about the publishing industry
    sometimes it is easier to burn it all down and start anew.......
  • Commented on Amazon: malignant monopoly, or just plain evil?
    @SFreader Amazon Web Services is the big boy in pure cloud plays right now, they run a huge number of servers and host half the internet these days including Netflix. It's weird, but it's true http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services...
  • Commented on Amazon: malignant monopoly, or just plain evil?
    SFReader you are wrong about the cloud part of your argument, amazon is itself the biggest cloud supplier in the world. There business is very much infrastructure, however because they can rent our their infrastructure to other people they can...
  • Commented on Amazon: malignant monopoly, or just plain evil?
    Vulch no one is saying these is not a software lockin, there most certainly is. There is just not a lockin to a particular hardware device. The software lockin is not ideal but less dangerous to the consumer then a...
  • Commented on Amazon: malignant monopoly, or just plain evil?
    Yup I do all my reading on tablets mostly iPads , and phones of course. The dedicated ereader device is a dinosaur When I google the multiple download problem I find a suggestion to use the amazon website to deregister...
  • Commented on Amazon: malignant monopoly, or just plain evil?
    Charlie, the point is there is no device lockin and people can read kindle books on whatever physical device they want. For 99.9% of the reading public this is a great user experience and they simply don't care about the...
  • Commented on Amazon: malignant monopoly, or just plain evil?
    Amazon essential has no device lockin and never will, that ship has sailed beyond any shadow of a doubt. What they do have is an app lockin through drm, which is essentially a level of friction and inconvieance of multiple...
  • Commented on Amazon: malignant monopoly, or just plain evil?
    Charlie you are mistaken when you think of an ereader as a physical device. An ereader is an app, this includes Kindle. As such it is trivial to move your drm'd books to any tablet that runs iOS or Android...
  • Commented on The prospects of the Space and Freedom Party reconsidered in light of the crisis of 21st century capitalism
    The problem with all these plans about having the government go after the rich people is that the government and the rich are the same thing. So, it ain't never gonna happen kids...
  • Commented on Generation Z
    I think it's easy to be pessimistic when you live in the UK it's one of the few places in the world where things have actually gotten worse not better over a significant period of time. North Korea also comes...
  • Commented on Tragedy as Comfort Fiction: On Death, Drama, Disaster & Saving the World
    I think life is actually comedy, tragedy, drama, romance, all the genres rolled together. However periods in your life can certainly map strongly to one of those. he overall theme of your life has to do with your own mental...
  • Commented on What have we learned?
    There was nothing really to learn from that event other then the general level of detachment from reality in most lf the world was a little higher then that I had previously thought. Everything played out with a dreary predictability....
  • Commented on Lies, damned lies, and popular beliefs
    People believe false things because they need them to be true in order to maintain internal consistency in their belief structure. Else the cognitive dissonance sets My theory is that the ability of the human brain to accurately model complex...
  • Commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
    War IS atrocity, anyone who says otherwise is selling something. The difference is not so much in how you fight a war, all wars degrade to absolute war over time the only thing you can do is slow the degradation....
  • Commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
    "I'd say that's your smoking gun right here: the chief of RAF Bomber Command was intentionally trying to cause mass civilian fatalities." ok i buy that....
  • Commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
    "@fatal.error: "game theory would state that you do not negotiate with people if there is nothing to gain for you from the negotiation": if you believe that this applies to the end of the Second World War, then your starting...
  • Commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
    I'm not sure what the point of all the war crimes talk is. Pretty much every major combatant in WW2 was gulty of War Crimes by the Hague definition As far as negotiating with Japan, game theory would state that...
  • Commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
    Actually Charlie a lot of those doom and gloom scenarios have been revised it looks like birth rates in developed countries are on the rise again. Funnily enough UN just released the revised projections this very day http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6038 it's really...
  • Commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
    The idea that a declining population is good for an economy is pretty hard to believe. That sounds like wishful thinking to me. Shrinking gdp's are generally a Bad Thing. Nuclear weapons prevent great power wars. Without them, there would...
  • Commented on PSA: Ignore the news
    Such a scary word lockdown and certainly one to make the libertarians froth. The reality was people were "asked" to remain in their homes and the government shut down stuff the government runs. Authority can "ask" you to do a...
  • Commented on PSA: Ignore the news
    Oh yes. Explosions, car crashes, bad guys kidnapping innocent civiloans, engaged in a running fire fight dow the streets of a major American metropolis. No idea why anyone might be interested in this stuff.......
  • Commented on What are words worth?
    Im bland Midwestern standard unless Im drunk then the hillbilly comes out a bit. In general it doesn't matter much in California everyone here is from somewhere else anyway...
  • Commented on Off the Map: Women in Science and Science Fiction
    It's not just science, or technical fields, the gender bias is completely widespread Sheryl just wrote a book about all of this, #1 on the NYT bestseller list...
  • Commented on The permanent revolution
    Augmented reality does not have to be bandwidth intensive, since you are mostly marking up and overlaying the things you are already seeing rather then creating an entirely new virtual reality experience . There are already augmented reality apps running...
  • Commented on The permanent revolution
    Quantum engagement and instant communication across distance , faster then the speed of light? Not exactly practical at the moment.......
  • Commented on The permanent revolution
    "The Victorians would not know what a TV is, but Ozzie and Harriet would recognize even a modern TV as a better version of their own TV." Ozzie and Harriet would not think of my TV as a TV. My...
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