I’m sitting at Powerset’s demo right now. Initial thoughts – Barney and Steve have done a great job building a smart team. I still think they have a lot of challenges ahead but most players in the space do – including Ask, and Yahoo. Google is seriously turning into an 800 pound gorilla. Dan Farber [...]
Categories: clustering,google,linux,open source
I’m still catching up on my news but you’ve probably read this by now. If I were a VC I’d be begging James to let me invest. I like this comment: This has much broader implications than you think. First, we now had less to lose by being aggressive (countless right moves were killed in [...]
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(Warning. This post uses sarcasm – which is the highest form of comedy) This CNN article has it all wrong: WASHINGTON (AP) — Garfield, Morris and the Aristocats get the fame, but look to the origins of today’s furry felines and you find “lybica,” a Middle Eastern wildcat. Domestic cats can be traced to wild [...]
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When confronted by high school students about torture – Bush just lies to them. Want the real scoop? The Washington Post has the official memo: “Physical pain amounting to torture must be equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death.” No matter, [...]
Categories: politics
I’m with Chas on this one. Dell is growing up and joining the blogosphere: Now’s not the time to mince words, so let me just say it… we blew it. I’m referring to a recent blog post from an ex-Dell kiosk employee that received more attention after the Consumerist blogged about it, and even more [...]
Categories: linux,open source
Rumor has it that Chris Messina went to Foo camp this weekend? Sell out? What say you comrade? Busted:
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Samsung has announced a new line of 64G SSDs for use in consumer laptops. Nice to see innovation but I REALLY want to see more SSDs in the server space. I JUST want to use a CHEAP 2-5G SSD for write ahead and binary logs. I just need 1k write ops per second with a [...]
Categories: linux,mysql,open source
I was watching this and thinking that a great way to ensure something will fail (or fail to sell) is to have Bush endorse it. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRHENsHy3OY]
Categories: apple
… they have small iPhones … (sorry… couldn’t resist that joke)
Categories: apple,open source