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Isn't that called a blog?

I would disagree with the initial premise that it's about the pursuit of "perfect sound reproduction". There's many people who do that, but that's not what the audiophile world rea…

You should watch the film (Queen of Versailles). It's clear that 1) he's completely devoid of a soul; 2) he exploited the cheap money thing knowingly to build his business on subpr…

I don't know anyone who uses it, so I'm just not sure how this is a disappointment to anyone. Seems like trying to make a big deal out of Apple removing something nobody used. Also…

I really like the "I'm sure I can find SOMETHING to throw at him". Also, isn't he basically engaging in slander by accusing Matthew of orchestrating these attacks? Everything I've …

I seriously doubt that any executive at Apple has given 5 minutes thought to Bitcoin.

How many years before we can forget Gladwell?

There is a reason that the NSA partnered with IBM to build the Trusted Foundry program. http://www.nsa.gov/business/programs/tapo.shtml

One can only approach the limits of Adobe's stupidity, not actually reach it.

You are presuming that the TSA will ever reveal what "standard procedures" are. They're whatever justifies their current behavior, but you can't know, you dirty hippie, because tha…

This isn't new. Cisco hasn't really had a lot of success with their own products, but has had a lot of success buying other companies and re-labling them into the Cisco ecosystem. …

So, we'll just ignore the Dynabook in 1968 that precedes them all? Having an idea is about 0.001% of "invention". The rest is all the "little details".

How do they make money? Volume! http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/first-citywide-...

This is why you buy from Other World Computing http://www.macsales.com/ Awesome support. No, I don't work there, I just have been buying upgrades for many many many years there, in…

Ya think?

This is a heretofore unknown definition of "dummies".

Only when it assists in denying the public visibility into the operation of the government do things in the tech world get MORE expensive over time.

As with AWS, it's a gamble as to whether it will be there when you need it. I'm always nervous of all-you-can-eat plans. All it takes is a small estimate mistake to blow an entire …

Finally, our long nightmare of not being tracked when looking at paper catalogs is over.

And $20B isn't?

Huzzah. About time. Now can we stop pretending that the Full Faith and Credit clause of the Constitution doesn't apply to marriage?

Didn't you know, everything is a website that can be written single-threaded?

3 times the price? Seriously?

I get the feeling that you're both right and wrong. Right in that a lot of the legacy Amazon code is probably burdened with huge technical debt. I also get the feeling they're push…

The difficulty sometimes in comparing is, as this post points out, people don't include all the "other" costs that often dwarf the hardware costs. Power, cooling, bandwidth, etc., …