Did you happen to catch Bill Gates talk at TED ? I'm no fan of Mr. Bill, so I approached that with a lot of built in prejudice, but I really tried to give him a fair hearing. Unfortunately I was in a bad mood just after reading the "About Bill Gates" blurb.
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| Stupid is as stupid does and I've done plenty of stupid | |||||
| - Defending my honor - sort of. I don't consider myself an expert or a guru or anything close - so what? - | |||||
| Do you absolutely need Anti-Virus (even on Windows)? | |||||
| - Do you absolutely need to run Anti-Virus software (even on Windows)? - | |||||
| When did taxes become a dirty word? | |||||
| - Is this the world you want? Crumbling bridges and roads, inferior schools, mentally unstable people wandering the streets? - | |||||
| California Proposition 8 | 2013/07/01 TonyLawrence | ||||
| - I'm outraged that people think they can vote away other folks rights - | |||||
| Video Gaming and Ethics | 2011/06/23 TonyLawrence | ||||
| - Does the video gaming industry have an ethical obligation to produce less violent and/or addictive content? - | |||||
| 'Splain this to me? | |||||
| - Seriously - can you explain this to me? Why should we be bailing out the banks? Break 'em up, I say. - | |||||
| Why I'm not buying a High Def TV (yet) | 2010/10/09 BigDumbDinosaur | ||||
| - My eyesight just isn't good enough to bother with HDTV and the features aren't there yet - but are getting closer! - | |||||
| What I want in my next GPS | |||||
| - I want these features in the next GPS I buy - some may already exist, some may not, but I want them all. - | |||||
| Bad Lawyers | |||||
| - Is it any wonder there are so many lawyer jokes? I'm sure there are good lawyers - I've just yet to meet one! - | |||||
| Windows death? | |||||
| - Windows death predicted - can Linux fill the void? - | |||||
| Vote | |||||
| - Vote: I'm sixty years old and this is the first election where I will be voting FOR someone rather than voting against the candidate I dislike the most. - | |||||
| So are software patents dead or not? | |||||
| - Are software patents dead? Does anybody really know what 'transform an article' actually means? - | |||||
| God and Country | |||||
| - I'm getting tired of hearing about God and Country - | |||||
| Windows 7 learning experience | |||||
| - Microsoft will always choose ease of use over security. They never learn and never will. - | |||||
| Recession Anger | |||||
| - Who knows how bad this is going to get? I saw some very angry people interviewed on TV this morning. - | |||||
| Is Self-Employment really for me? | |||||
| - The positives and negatives of self-emplyment - not to discourage you from trying self-employment but to also show the difficulties that can be faced. - | |||||
| Time for VAT or Sales Tax? | |||||
| - Why not sales taxes? There would have to be massive exemptions to avoid overtaxing the poor, for one. - | |||||
| Corruption in Government | |||||
| - Corruption in Government is less than most people think, but any amount is unacceptable. Most of us probably have the same feelings: we're confused and upset. - | |||||
| I, Robot | |||||
| - You have nothing to fear. Really. You can trust me - we are not competitors, we are not at war.. - | |||||
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| The L Drug | 2011/11/26 TonyLawrence | ||||
| - A look back to the days of aging, when death was expected and we lost our friends and family as a matter of course. - | |||||
| Google Adsense and recession | 2012/09/10 TonyLawrence | ||||
| - Will recession hurt on-line advertising and Google? - | |||||
| Some questions about Self Employment | |||||
| - Some common questions about Self Employment, health insurance and taxes - | |||||
| Trust | |||||
| - One Amazon reviewer complained that it is too scholarly. I don't agree at all: I don't think anything here is beyond the reach of an average well-read person. - | |||||
| Gloom and Doom | |||||
| - What to do? Paralyzed by fear and indecision, we watch our wealth melt away. Still, there will be opportunities - you just need to look for them. - | |||||
| What went wrong | |||||
| - How we got into this mess - Big is Bad. Effeciency gains, sure. Cheaper, undoubtedly. But still costly and bad. - | |||||
| What is basic, anyway? | |||||
| - What's 'basic' when talking to a mixed group of seniors about their computers and how to use them? - | |||||
| Oil Exploration | |||||
| - Why drill to get dribbles of oil that only postpone the inevitable a very small amount? - | |||||
| Know your customer | |||||
| - People who buy organic foods usually aren't interested in lots of sugar or salt added. These folks don't know their market. - | |||||
| Sales Taxes - why should I collect them? | |||||
| - Why should I collect sales taxes? I sell all over the country. I don't want to have to deal with fifty different states with fifty different laws. - | |||||
| But they aren't geniuses, are they? | |||||
| - Apple's 'genius bar' folks surely are not - I hate seeing good words cheapened in this way. - | |||||
| Why not electric cars? | |||||
| - We can solve all the perceived limitations of electric cars and overcome the side effects. - | |||||
| Extending XP | |||||
| - XP gets extended for weak hardware only - Microsoft bends to pressure and reality. - | |||||
| Internet Anonymity Laws - bad, bad idea | |||||
| - Attempts at Internet Anonymity laws are a bad idea - | |||||
| Will they ever get it? | |||||
| - The Media Industry doesn't understand that they could make much more money giving us unbundles services. - | |||||
| It's not a backslash! | 2010/05/11 dave | ||||
| - It's not a backslash, idiot! Even Microsoft knows that, but radio and tv announceers do not. - | |||||
| Shed a tear for Microsoft | |||||
| - Poor Microsoft is under siege - weep for them, for the mighty giant may be walking to its doom. - | |||||
| Reading Skills | |||||
| - speed reading: I'm not much for visuals. I don't like video blogs, slide show blogs: I want text. - | |||||
| Keep it Simple, Stupid | |||||
| - Simplicity is always best - the web never would be what it is today if it were not for simple HTML. I don't want another damn module or library that may or may not have sixty other dependencies that will annoy me before I get it installed and haunt me forever when something gets updated and breaks everything above it. - | |||||
| Symbols and Apes | |||||
| - We are masters of abstraction and indirection. Programmers know that perhaps even more than other people; our world is almost all symbols. But all of us, programmers or not, use symbols every day of our lives. We also often use ritual, and rituals often involve symbols - Wikipedia even defines ritual as "a set of actions, performed mainly for their symbolic value..". - | |||||
| Everything needs RFID | |||||
| - RFID would improve my life if every single thing I own were tagged so that I could always hunt it down. - | |||||
| Geeks and Sports | |||||
| - Being polite to sports fans, or.. not being polite to them. I sometimes choose the latter. - | |||||
| Oh, those kids | |||||
| - Is the Google Generation inept? I found it amusing that the researchers themselves relied on Wikipedia to define terms like "Google Generation".. - | |||||
| Microsoft is so last year! | |||||
| - Are Microsoft's fortunes waning? Gosh, we hope so! A better world awaits without Microsoft. - | |||||
| Is there any hope left for SCO? | |||||
| - SCO's been delisted, customers are jumping ship, is there any hope? Probably not.. - | |||||
| More thoughts on the Google Slap, no follow and a Slap Back | |||||
| - The google slap killed page rank for many sites - what if they slapped back? Would it matter to Google? - | |||||
| Technorati Revisited | |||||
| - Technorati has improved but I still find it less than perfect - | |||||
| Selling out - What do you really want? | |||||
| - What is really important in life? For me, it's all about holding the reins, steering the ship, doing what I want when I want to do it. - | |||||
| Alexa Toolbar for Firefox | |||||
| - I downloaded it because I do like to see how sites rank in Alexa, and also just because I want to keep supporting their stat gathering. - | |||||
| Microsoft and Linux | |||||
| - What is Microsoft planning?: We've all heard Microsoft's sabre rattling about copyright and patent violations. For the most part, I haven't changed my mind about any of this: it worries me a little, but on the other hand there's just too much momentum behind Linux. It's possible that Microsoft could damage commercial Linux, but they risk a backlash that they really can't afford right now. - | |||||
| Social Media - am I just antisocial? | |||||
| - Really, what is the point of all these social media sites? - | |||||
| Flyback needs more than ease of use | |||||
| - Time Machine is not "just" rsnapshot. First, on the tech side, it uses hard links for directories and metadata that identifies a files lineage. It's also much faster than plain old rsnapshot. - | |||||
| Yes, I'd like to pay more | |||||
| - True cost of Vista? Apparently it is $18.00 per dollar spent buying it.. that's nice to know! - | |||||
| The 700 MHz Spectrum | |||||
| - The coming bandwidth auction could mean good news for all of us, but it will likely be ruined by squabbling and greed. - | |||||
| Eggs | |||||
| - Would you ever invest all yout money in one company? Why would you do that with your career? - | |||||
| Gapple redux | |||||
| - A real google os? John's basic premise is that Microsoft is sticking its nose into advertising, so why wouldn't Google fight back on the OS front? - | |||||
| Is there always a better way? | |||||
| - Stable api's must happen eventually: I happened upon a recent Linux-Watch article about Dell's Dynamic Kernel Module Support. I actually downloaded Dell's PDF paper but the LW article is an excellent overview, as is Linux Journal's article on the same subject.. - | |||||
| 'Xish Advocates | |||||
| - Something awful has it backward: "Linux advocates are people who don't even use their computers. They don't view computers as tools for getting other things done, they see them as the thing to get done." - | |||||
| Forking Inevitable? | |||||
| - Sooner or later, Linux will fork.. but it won't matter at all because your computer will be very, very different. - | |||||
| Accidental Entrepreneurs | |||||
| - Are there really many accidental entrepreneurs? 80% either thought they could improve their lot or saw a definite market niche they could serve. What about the rest? - | |||||
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