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Comment sucks (Score 1) 257

I don't want to explore drop down bullshit. I just want to read the fricking summary and determine yeah or neah, and then move on. Who has time for this crap? It just makes it difficult to read and impairs the communication.

Comment Re:Ball Point Pens Destroyed Cursive (Score 1) 921

that's great - unles you are left-handed in which case you are still hosed. I write creditably well with ball pen and I don't think that's the problem at all. On the other hand - I purposefully write by hand on paper regularly (with ball pen), forcing myself not to use a keyboard (which is the real source for deteriorated cursive handwriting...)
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Andreessen's Secret Plan To Find the Next Netscape 130

Hugh Pickens writes "CNN reports that Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen has raised $300 million to launch a new venture capital firm that aims to reinvent the way money is doled out in Silicon Valley while reflecting Andreessen's unwavering view that the Internet will soon take over all aspects of our lives and that online services won't merely supplement your TV viewing or newspaper reading, but will replace those activities altogether. Andreessen, on the board of Facebook and an angel investor in Twitter, says that technology moves so quickly that only the young can keep up with what the latest stuff can do. 'So the 24-year-old coming out of Stanford will have a view of technology that the 29-year-old — who was 24 just five years ago — would never think of,' say Andreessen. 'We love that kind of thing.' Andreessen thinks that when companies are acquired too quickly, innovation slows down, and he says that YouTube might have come up with a path to profitability faster if it wasn't a part of Google. 'It is hard for big ones to out-execute up-and-comers,' Andreessen says. 'Our secret plan is to watch what gets acquired and fund the next company. A good template is to fund companies doing whichever the next-generation product would have been.'"

Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 665

This isn't about anti-religion. This is about specific entries and the deletion and alteration of entries (against published rules on wikipedia) to remove viewpoints considered undesirable by Scientology. Anti-religion is just a label and button to characterize and demonize the action emotionally. This is a necessary action to remove a disruptive behavior. They (Ch. of $cn) could have ADDED their viewpoint, or added references - but that was not the case, they delete opposing viewpoints, adding (IMHO erroneous) citations and data that is exclusively pro-$cn.

Frankly it couldn't happen to a nicer cult.

Comment pry it from my cold dead hands... (Score 2) 580

wait - stop - just kidding...
innovation (read adoption of what the surveyed herd wants and whoever we could purchase a look from, or failing that, what apple did last quarter, visually) in windows sucks.
The next step is to divorce the windows graphic interface from the underlying operating system, and make it a desktop for linux. Like apple. But with Linux.

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