February 2009
19 posts
“Las Vegas Running Out of Water Means Dimming Los Angeles Lights
…One...”
– Bloomberg.com: Las Vegas Running Out of Water Means Dimming Los Angeles Lights
Sawickipedia: Wow does this public servant understand economics? Apparently not. Water and living wherever you want is not some god given right. If water is expensive in an area, then so be it. Price it rationally...
Thoughts on "Efficient"
rafer:
lookery:
Interesting conversation at lunch yesterday. Elias and I had a different take on what it means for a dev team to be “efficient” (I’ll have to make a special post when the two of us find ourselves in total agreement on something ;-). I’m going to caricature what we were saying a bit, because I think it captures two things developers strive for:
Efficiency Definition 1:...
“I don’t want to hear the commissioner turned a blind eye to this or he...”
– ESPN.com - Commish doesn’t want steroids blame
Sawickipedia: OMG I almost spit my drink up from laughing so hard reading this. Baseball management and owners are just as culpable for the steroids era in baseball as the players. Bud - you’re as much to blame as anyone. What a mess and...
“Kondratieff and his disciples — among whom was Joseph Schumpeter, who wrote...”
– Economic Lessons From Lenin’s Seer - NYTimes.com
Rafer sez: I tend to set my economic watch by Schumpeter, so this essay pinned me down for a while. This is the first major economic bubble/bust after the adoption of consumer broadband. I don’t have the resources to study correlation vs. causation...
“Is it just me or is Kurzweil turning his cult into a religion?”
– Slashdot | NASA and Google To Back New “Singularity University”
Rafer sez: I was about to call Singularity U “Silicon Valley’s Scientology” when I hit on this slashdot thread. It got both some rational commenters and an ad that couldn’t be more relevant. Just complete the irony, Google targeted...
“Google will take a hefty 30 percent cut on the [Android App Store] sales — 15...”
– Google to Take a Hefty Cut on Android App Sales | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
Rafer sez: Bad move. Even Google is unlikely to be able to beat Apple at its own game. They should keep the Checkout price at 2% and focus on helping developers build acquisition campaigns via mobile ad campaigns. Apple is...
“I’m coming to think that our No. 1 priority actually must be education. That...”
– NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF - Our Greatest National Shame - NYTimes.com (via tedr)
Sawickipedia: The elephant in the room when it comes to education in this country is that we spend more per capita then anyone in the world yet wallow in terms of results. Without reform, it just feels like we’re...
“BlackBerry 9000 - communication failure (cannot access web) It seems that after...”
– WOT-NOTARY » Blog Archive » BlackBerry 9000 - communication failure (cannot access web)
Sawickipedia: this was affecting my BB Bold this weekend and thank goodness there’s a fix.
“For example, in a case pitting the family of Michelle Cedillo, a severely...”
– Court Says Vaccine Not to Blame for Autism - NYTimes.com
Sawickipeida: Thank goodness sanity and science prevail. It sickens me the way parents are being deluded about vacines. If you want to live in the dark age parents go for it, but risking your kids lives shouldn’t be part of the...
“CBO: Obama stimulus harmful over long haul
President Obama’s economic...”
– CBO: Obama stimulus harmful over long haul
Sawickipedia: No kidding. Gov’t spending is not some freeby without a cost. Remember debt got us into this mess, more debt likely isn’t the savior its made out to be.
“It might be a bit of a stretch to compare today’s corporate titans with...”
– ABC News: Obama’s Perks: Private Jet, Chef Tax-Free
Sawickipedia: Wow Wall St. griping while losing their master of the universe perks is a new level chutzpah. Comparing your perks to POTUS - Wall St. stop it before the public gets any more pissed off.
Thinking about the future of Windows Mobile
bijan:
Earlier this morning the number one story on Techmeme was about Microsoft Windows Mobile. Lots of rumors and speculation about Windows Mobile 7.
In 2010.
I’m not kidding.
Here’s the thing. It will surprise many of you but I’m actually a big fan of Microsoft. They make a bunch of great products (Xbox360, keyboard, mouse) and we rely on Microsoft Exchange as our digital furnace at work.
...
“David Letterman roughed up ex-Gov. Blagojevich in his interview with him...”
– DRUDGE REPORT 2009®
Sawickipedia: Obviously now ex-Gov. Blago has no shame, but, sir just go away, the quieter the better.
“I think Daschle was ultimately done in by the left, which viewed his close ties...”
– Bruce Bartlett Bio | Politico.com
Sawickipedia: Well put. We’re rationing services whether we like it or not now and going forward. Tricky indeed.
“How Government Prolonged the Depression: Policies that decreased competition in...”
– Opinion: Government Prolonged Depression - WSJ.com
Sawiickipedia: Great example of how regulation hurt those it was trying to help. Bailouts could very well have similar near term effects.
“It appears to be in an evidence bag from the scene of a crime. A CRIME AGAINST...”
– Virgin: the world’s best passenger complaint letter? - Telegraph
Sawickipedia - Funny rant on the travails of what passes for food on airlines even from supposedly good ones like Virgin.
“Come and get us, Microsoft. That might as well be what Yahoo’s search ad...”
– Losing Hope With Yahoo, After Watching The Paid Search Division Stumble
Sawickipedia: Great post by Danny Sullivan on how screwed up Yahoo! is on the SEM side using their latest account management kerfuffle as the example of the sickness. As someone who’s done a LOT of SEM personally - I...
“Dunder Mifflin Alert! Nielsen to Disable Employees’ ‘Reply to...”
– Dunder Mifflin Alert! Nielsen to Disable Employees’ ‘Reply to All’ E-mail Functionality - Dylan Stableford - Blogs B2B @ FolioMag.com
Sawickipedia: This is too funny to be true and it is. Holy crap what a waste of corporate resources. Can you imagine working at Nielsen in their...
“But the banker’s big disconnect is the part about “getting paid a...”
– Wall Street: We Deserve Our Bonuses
Sawickipedia: Well put - when perfomance bonuses become hard work bonuses I’m not sure what’s the point anymore. And it’s not just wall st. - it’s something I see a lot in our current culture and it seems like an outgrowth of the...