Why Republicans Won't Retake Silicon Valley 445
An anonymous reader writes "Republican consultant Patrick Ruffini, who counts Google as one of his clients, sketches out a way that the GOP could 'win back' Silicon Valley — but he gets smacked down by tech businessman Francis Cianfrocca. 'Patrick's basic thesis is that the VC firms that fund the Valley will rebel at being regulated by [Treasury Secretary] Tim Geithner, who is talking about increasing reporting requirements for both private equity and venture capital. Assuming I understand them both correctly, something tells me that neither Geithner nor Ruffini understand deeply what venture capital is all about.'"
Comment Re:What the fuck (Score 0) 147
My high regard for the Slashdot community...
Well THERE'S your problem.
Comment Re:Now about that 32GB issue... (Score 1) 619
God forbid you have to listen to the same song twice in 2 months.
Why is this so hard to understand? The reason for wanting enough space for your entire music collection is so that you can play anything you want on demand. Who cares if 80% of it never gets listened to? That one day when I'm in the mood to listen to a particular album, I don't want to be cursing the fact that it's not on my iPod at the moment. Why need to re-sync once a week? Why try to predict which subset of your music you'll feel like listening to? God forbid someone would ask for a feature that would make their usage more convenient. And yeah, I'm sure the inevitable doubling of memory will set back gps and other feature development for years... Who mods this shit insightful?
Comment Re:This is why (Score 2, Insightful) 427
Unless you have some system to guarantee that your opponents will lose...
Umm yeah, it's called being a more skillful player. The variance in skill level of poker players is easily large enough for a significant percentage of them to win enough to overcome the house's cut. Of course the house is always the biggest winner, and the average player will be a loser, but it's naive to say that only the house wins.
