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Re: 2020 Toyota Supra Spider Has Lambo Doors

Stan Kurdziel — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 12:23:37 -0000

Don't understand why this is posted as a 2020 Supra? Seems it's a SC430 with a modified 1990s engine? And it doesn't sound like a Toyota project?

Re: No Hollywood Ending for the Visual-Effects Industry

Stan Kurdziel — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 18:44:34 -0000

Are movies themselves goods or services? If movies are goods, it seems quite hard to justify vfx not also being goods. However, as presented by this story, it seems there really is no silver bullet "solution" here.

Re: The top performing stock in the Nasdaq

Stan Kurdziel — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 23:55:38 -0000

Although cell phone popularity increases since 2002 certainly haven't hurt them, SBA is more than just a mobile device play. Carriers put a lot of effort into locating real estate and getting approval to build towers (small plots to house unsightly and possibly health impacting equipment). Since "carrier A" is unlikely to directly negotiate with their fierce competitor "carrier B" to share a location, SBA acts as an intermediary. They own the land and lease the same location to all carriers. That way the costs are split among carriers and the carriers have a lot less hassle finding sites. That's a great business model.

Re: Tuples in Java

Stan Kurdziel — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:57:08 -0000

This looks a bit better - possibly on par with C#'s structure: http://www.javatuples.org/

Re: Discuss MyWinLocker Suite

Stan Kurdziel — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:54:17 -0000

@see http://www.egistec.com/en/i...
This looks to be a biometric login system - configure one master password to control the whole system. If your system has a fingerprint reader it could use that. Claims to be able to use face recognition with a webcam also. I did not try it, seems unnecessary.

Re: Denver Airport’s Free Wifi: The Future of Internet

Stan Kurdziel — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:23:58 -0000

I don't like the style of the ads - disrupting the internet page you are viewing - causing problems with some sites/services:
* interferes with browser navigation (back and forward buttons)
* breaks site refresh (control-r)
* changes the URL in the title bar, so you can't copy it and send to a friend
* interferes with some sites that use ajax

I have a laptop with 1024x600 resolution, great for traveling, but the Denver free wifi ad takes up over 21% of the IE browsing window.
Imagine what it would do to a phone browser!

I would rather they used a less intrusive, and most likely more effective form of advertising, like posters around the airport supporting free-wifi. Or ads printed on the ticket jackets.