Topics on businesses, good and bad.
As I’m writing this, I just got off the phone with a customer service representative at a high-tech company. To anyone with experience in the matter, that sentence probably provokes a sympathetic wince, at the very least. But this was a very different experience. Let me ‘splain… no, there is too much, let me sum …
Here’s something you’d probably never think of: […] a self-enforcing protocol for determining property tax: the homeowner decides the value of the property and calculates the resultant tax, and the government can either accept the tax or buy the home for that price. Sounds unrealistic, but the Greek government implemented exactly that system for the …
Uh-oh… time to sell Pfizer stock. 😉
…instead of latching onto them and bleeding them like a parasite. It’s about time! 🙂
Someone recently asked me what I thought about the Google ChromeOS announcement. I think a lot of things about it, but this article sums them up extremely well, and adds several more that I hadn’t considered too. The bottom line: like the Chrome browser, I don’t see it as necessary. Neither will put much added …
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Check out both of the links here. Fascinating and disquieting at the same time. I always knew that locks were only a nuisance to professional lockpickers, but I didn’t realize just how easy it was to learn to pick them… or how quickly even the best locks can be beaten.
I’m betting that this game will do very well. At 99 cents, I’m considering buying a copy myself.
Getting kind of desperate, Microsoft?
Interesting… I’d heard the story of the QWERTY keyboard arrangement before, but I didn’t realize that it was developed in the 1800s. I fully support experimenting with the keyboard layout. I’d gladly adopt a different keyboard — but only if I could be sure that it would be available on all the systems I need …
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I can see this annoying, rather than helping, several of my acquaintances (such as a girl who prefers Lego sets rather than dolls). And I’m sure there are some people for whom it would always choose the wrong gender. On the plus side, it means guys might not be subjected to quite so many ads …
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