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Saturday, December 18, 2010
Is Hank Greenberg is the most culpable for the banking crisis? He was paying AIG bonuses after Spitzer had booted him from AIG from Starr International. There had to be a good bonuses at AIG, and a great deal of mutual back slapping, for issuing the Credit Default Swaps. Hanky Panky is getting to be too old to care and would probably be OK with taking one for the tribe, of bankers. That is to say, if anyone were actually to take him on. By Spitzer's own account, he took himself out. Is it OK not to be outraged by all this? Or, how does one do good in this world without lying down with moneyed liars? Are the moneyed non-liars vastly outnumbered or is that just my delusion?
Jobs
If you like to untie Gordian Knots like the innovation quenching effects of the patent system, please offer to help build up the Key Prize Foundation.
HP TouchSmart
Finally treated myself to a new computer after killing my productivity for the last two years by being too cheap and stupid to retire and recycle my old laptop. This one is an HP TouchSmart 310. It's an all-in-one with a wireless keyboard and mouse.
I hoped it would dismantle in order to fit in my carry-on bag. Perhaps, the b-school trained marketing people made sure that it will not. I guess I'll need to buy another laptop as well and migrate my filing system to the cloud. I have Mozy.
The touchscreen is useful but frustrating. Things like text selecting and finger scrolling do not always work. I wonder how much of the problem is engineering, and if the obvious ideas are tied up by Apple patents.
This computer can be used to browse while standing. That's why I bought it but it's awkward because the screen does not tilt back far enough and you have to put a book under the stand. Consumers and engineers are not really thinking about ergonomics yet.
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After some weeks, I find that I don't use it while standing. It's just so much easier to take a seat than to shove a book under the stand. Sad.
But wait, there's a stack of magzines here that jack the monitor up 10 cm. This is much better - at least for sitting and typing. The center of the screen is still 12 cm below eye level though. I need a 22 cm high pile of solid coffee table books.
I hoped it would dismantle in order to fit in my carry-on bag. Perhaps, the b-school trained marketing people made sure that it will not. I guess I'll need to buy another laptop as well and migrate my filing system to the cloud. I have Mozy.
The touchscreen is useful but frustrating. Things like text selecting and finger scrolling do not always work. I wonder how much of the problem is engineering, and if the obvious ideas are tied up by Apple patents.
This computer can be used to browse while standing. That's why I bought it but it's awkward because the screen does not tilt back far enough and you have to put a book under the stand. Consumers and engineers are not really thinking about ergonomics yet.
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After some weeks, I find that I don't use it while standing. It's just so much easier to take a seat than to shove a book under the stand. Sad.
But wait, there's a stack of magzines here that jack the monitor up 10 cm. This is much better - at least for sitting and typing. The center of the screen is still 12 cm below eye level though. I need a 22 cm high pile of solid coffee table books.
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