I expect we'll make a distinction between desktop computers and mobile computers as long as we need fans and space to cool hot-running desktop chips. If we can get speed without much heat, there's no reason not to put the...
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Does the study specify how significant the shock was and whether its severity (or lack of it) was accurately conveyed? If it were no more than the static electricity jolt from taking off a sweater in winter, then the suggestion...
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If Microsoft retreats from hardware, that's good news for Apple. Apple will remain the only vertically integrated consumers hardware, software, and services platform company. And it will have an easier time defending its...
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In-app purchasing has hurt gaming. $49 or $99 for a set of virtual acorns or whatever? The whole system is just cynical. And yet developers have to do it because the platform owners have set impossibly low price expectations....
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>It's not FB, per se; it's the people with whom I stay in touch primarily through FB, many of whom are not on Google+ or Twitter that I'd miss. That's exactly it. Because everyone uses Facebook, you have to use...
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Sounds like an opportunity to develop GPS spoofing technology or proxy system to conceal the phone endpoint.
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@Alison- They were asked to do this both in a lab environment and at home. And at home they didn't do any better. One wonders if we haben't gotten so busy we don't know how to not be. I also wish we had run this experiment...
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Google itself doesn't use Docker, but the Kubernetes Project will re-orient Kubernetes around Docker use. Do I have that right?
In reply to: Docker not used inside Google?
When I first read this study I found the results pretty odd and reading everyone's reactions, it seems even odder. I would like to know more about the participants, that's for sure, as well as where they sat for those 15...
In reply to: Re: Pain or nothing
It certainly wouldn't hurt, but I think that there are a couple of other considerations here. I think that there are far too many people going to prison and/or have mandatory minimum sentences far in excess of their danger...
In reply to: Re: Meditation
Exactly -- Facebook's partners in the experiment are also being scrutinized for how they handled the review process. This should have been flagged.
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@jastro- Yes, you lost me, but it isn't all about me. Well yes, it is all about me. But not everyone else realizes it. :)
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@willjordan- Thanks for the answer. Let me ask you a more focused question since it is part of the article. Should we teach prisoners how to meditate? Do you think that would help them come out of jail healthier?
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I'm not a fan of unbundling capabilities in mobile apps, but it's a trend: Facebook did it with Messenger and Slingshot, and LinkedIn has done it with its new Connected app and Job Search app.
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Not yoga! I hate yoga (sorry). Meditation can be learned/taught in meditation classes locally, or in certain religious meetings. I had a great meditation teacher and we had a great group of people which created a wonderful...
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I don't know offhand if there's a specific way to delete something forever, but that's a great question. I'll find out.
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@johnnykelso- Good suggestion. There isn't a list yet. But I'll look into making one for all of IWeek's favorite follows.
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I do see a difference between mediating and sitting an thinking. It is a matter of focus, in some ways both inwarely and externally. For me there is a spiritual component as well. I am very much an introvert. I gain enery...
In reply to: Re: Meditation
Though the message is still pretty vague, it sounds like the beginning of the end for Microsoft's efforts at attracting consumers through hardware. Good thing. Ballmer was chasing a ghost there. Nadella realizes Microsoft...
In reply to: Play to your strengths
I agree, Gary. I also work remotely, which can be isolating at times. You need that water-cooler fix.
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