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The thing is, publishers and distributors can make better deals with Amazon, because Amazon will carry a wider array of stuff including physical books, including books that don't m…

Um, the fine minds of the Fed, Congress, and the Clinton and Bush administrations declared some of the instruments off limits from regulation. Then they went off to Wall Street and…

No, but it is an indication of the "enforcement" and regulation bodies being cowed and coopted by the bankers, which certainly effects the handling of the recent clusterfuck by the…

So if my broker has an app, and I use it to buy a million shares of a company in my account, Apple should get 30% of the transaction? For what, providing networking functionality?

"But will this be true for long, now that this particular shoe has dropped?" iBooks is still an also-ran. Publishers pretty much have to work with Amazon. iBooks is easier to ignor…

I'm waiting for Apple to apply a per-MB charge for all data you access on iOS via WiFi or 3G that doesn't come from Apple.

He gives one example, of an SEC investigator who got fired just for trying to talk to John Mack, now running Morgan Stanley, about a suspected case of insider trading. (An associat…

"But the people who thought there was going to be some kind of central library of domain-specific classes in your company, that you would reuse in multiple disparate applications, …

I think a lot of the benefits of OO reuse have been lost due to platform shifts. If you build a system on NeXTSTEP in the early 90s, then throw it out and switch to Java, then thro…

To me, popularity implies being seen in a favorable light, whereas "notable" is more like the absolute value of popularity or un-popularity.

I've occasionally bought books via my Kindle device. More often I buy using my computer's web browser and have the book delivered to the kindle.

NSFormatters do a lot of stuff, internationalization, user preferences for number representation, etc. It shouldn't be a surprise if they're a bit heavy. IIRC they're pretty much i…

"it's related to the word "popular."" Well, no, it isn't. Many things are notable that are not "popular", or even common. Leprosy, flesh-eating bacteria, progeria, Jeffrey Dahmer. …

But it's right in line with the worst petty academic pissing matches. Like the California math professor who was recently arrested for repeatedly peeing on his colleague's office d…

I always heard it as "a cat will steal the baby's breath", which is a bit more supernatural than mere physical smothering. That might have originated in seeing a cat sniffing a bab…

It's not clear Google has that kind of control. They don't control the Exchange server. They're just feeding data to it.

"Do you seriously believe the whole "the leak is very serious, but at the same time trivial"-story" All I know is that nobody looked through the leaked material and found something…

No joke, really. It's a drugstore/pharmacy that also sells greeting cards, house cleaning supplies, candy, snacks, coke and pepsi and milk, and really low-quality hardware like scr…

The main thing about the Iraq War Logs was that there was nothing particularly new or surprising or shocking. Details about incidents, but nothing war critics didn't already assume…

"If you are only willing to put in minimal effort and a drab of creativity, there are many low-paying hourly wage, or other, jobs out there for you. " Unless they won't hire you be…

Hell, I'd be wary of a $5 LED nightlight sold at Walgreens.

"I've seen novices do amazing design work." Sure. It happens. But that's not the way to bet.

See: Kim Jong-Il

The 1970s high school grad likely had it better, as there were more decent-paying factory jobs then.