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Amazon paints the Kindle cloudy

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Common misperception

"Apple are in the business of selling *hardware*."

No, Apple is in the business of selling solutions. The iPod isn't just a device to play music, it's part of a mobile music solution: from purchasing (iTunes Store), organizing (iTunes), converting your CDs into MP3s/etc (iTunes), to taking your music with you (iPod). GarageBand adds to that if you want to make your own music and take it with you

The iPhone and iPad are part of mobile solutions. As are their wireless devices, laptops, iOS and OS X, etc.

Mine's the one with the Newton running an apache server

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David Cameron turns water cannons on social networks

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Wait a minute

If we haven't been trying to educate these people, what have the educators been spending all that money on? Oh, right, the administrators.

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Oddly enough

Y'all are making the same arguments we gun owners make.

Just think about it. That's all I ask, just think about it.

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US Air Force in a seriously stealthless state

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Um, hold on

In the 30s, Will Rogers said (nonverbatim) "if you want to know when the next war will happen, wait until five years after the US reduces its military budget". And that's been pretty accurate since then.

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London rioters should 'loose all benefits'

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Previous solutions

... involved Australia and America. And sorry, we're full up.

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Not bad

But there are certain places where you couldn't do that.

Like San Francisco.

Just sayin'

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This was tried

It was back in the mid-to-late 90s and IIRC it was Wisconsin that did it: kids screws up two or three times and the whole family loses benefits. And it worked, before the lawyers and activists jumped in and kiboshed it.

When I get home I'll look it up.

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Gotta sympathize

A guy who tried to steal my car had been on the dole five years and continued to get benefits after he got out of jail. I, on the other hand, had to burn two vacation days to appear in court. That seems out of kilter.

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Chinese government under cyber siege

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I blame the Danes

They found out that their original plan, domination through hard-cornered plastic that you step on in the middle of the night, to be limited; they're allegedly smart enough to do this; and Dane was once a synonym for Viking. Plus, they have the perfect cover. Someone get Sandi Toksvig in for questioning.

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Motorola hints at Microsoft deal

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I wonder

How much of this is due to Google's lack of backing for the Android lawsuits? Apple and MS, whatever their faults (and they both have them) have at least given their business partners SOME backup in such cases. If I were in Mr Jha's place WinMo7 would look better from a risk standpoint, if nowhere else.

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Dunkin' Donuts waitress offers additional dunkin'

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Hey, I get it

Some days you prefer a challenge

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iPad threatened by young pretenders

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Uh, yeah

"Apple users are just technically illiterate."

You keep thinking that. Oh, and 1997 called, they want their attitudes back.

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Yeah but ...

... you don't just "knock up" sexy hardware. That takes design, redesign, and redesign, and that takes a bit of cash, and that makes the price higher. If you could just slap together gorgeous kit without the cash, someone would have figured that out by now.

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Apple nudges out Exxon Mobil for top spot on Wall Street

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Bubble

I think what you saw was an oil bubble deflating, then getting a slight rebound to self-correct. Apple just happened to be sitting there at the right place at the right time for this to happen.

This is more an oil industry/US economy story than a tech story.

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Glaswegian arrested for pro-riot Facebook posts

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And yet

... you can shout "Theatre!" in a crowded fire. Life is so unfair ...

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SQL survives murder attempt by mutant stepchild

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NoSQL has its place

My current position requires SQL. It involves pharmaceutical data, and trust me, if your health is in the hands of an EMT, you want a proper database behind the data that EMT is using. I've also worked at research facilities and at places where data was amalgamated from different sources, and I can see the benefit of NoSQL here because the data really doesn't fit into a set pattern that a proper RDBMS provides.

But remember, business is a great American institution, and like all great American institutions (baseball, blues, muscle cars), it is essentially conservative. A great example was when IndyCar announced the new car for 2012, they stayed with Dallara for the car's chassis, partly because "we know the crash data". That is no small consideration for someone hitting a wall at over 200 MPH. Likewise, we know the crash data for Oracle and MySQL; we're still gathering it for NoSQL. So businesses will let let that crash data come in before they look into investing all the time and money into a NoSQL conversion

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