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Re: rizzn's personal blog

awilensky — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:27:17 -0000

Rizz: You can't say that commercial paper and interbank ain't fucked up. that affects line of credit and business lending. Many ASR's are tied up, affecting VC short term placements.

Just saying, yo.

Re: Temper, temper, temper...

awilensky — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:36:23 -0000

You know, most folks believe that John Mcain's total involvement with the Keating Five was merely as a fall guy that reached out for a friend. Some folks that later interviewed friends of Keating uncovered anecdotal evidence that Mcain colluded with Keating from the beginning, in order to profit from the thrift loan rigging, and use his position as Senator to cash in on the ill gotten gains.. I think there was a book on it that never got widely circulated. I'll try and find the author and title. The man is a virus. Hey, and I'm no zombie for Obama, either. I think he is only slightly less flawed, but more of a citizen's advocate.

Re: America Needs A Turnaround Plan

awilensky — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:33:13 -0000

Wilson for President. The bailout of Fannie and Freddie was preceded by a call form the Chinese comptroller asking our treasury if they thought that the Warrants they were holding should be liquidated. IT was covered on Rhinholtz's blog.

Re: L'Shana Tova

awilensky — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:43:17 -0000

Should have said New Moon.

Re: L'Shana Tova

awilensky — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:44:47 -0000

Mrs. Wilson! Mrs. Wilson !!!

In the Rosh Hashanna prayers:

"At this time of of your remembrance, on the night of the full moon it is determined: who will live and who will die. who will prosper and who will bear penury, who will blessed and who will be judged."

Let us hope that the people who created, profited by, and allowed lax regulations to proceed apace, will be judged. Amen.

Re: To Splurge Or Not To Splurge

awilensky — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:04:33 -0000

I hope we go back to the old system after the splurge: You write loan, you hold the paper.

Re: Space NK

awilensky — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:40:03 -0000

Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Wilson!!!! I had my first cigarette and semi serious gang rumble at Kings Plaza! It was 1972! I was with my cousins from Canarsie.

Re: Comment Of The Day: Community Organization Is A Conservative Notion

awilensky — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:38:15 -0000

solipsistic - triple word score.

Re: Comment Of The Day: Community Organization Is A Conservative Notion

awilensky — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:39:18 -0000

I like the whole Wilson family political editorial coverage. Yay Mrs. Wilson!

I find myself turning away from the campaign coverage as the negativity and counter jabs ratchet up. Whereas John Mcain is a criminal who should just be getting out of jail now for engineering the S&L thrift scandal cover up, Obama is no saint for trading in dirty Chicago land deals.

I am a conservative Democrat, and will vote for Obama as a default option, (Mcain is a corpse and a virus). As to Gov. Palin - I like her. I disagree with 100% of her political and policy positions. But, you see, she is a rare breed, i.e., a Citizen Representative - an exceptionally rare commodity in a class of officials that run our legislature like their own family business.

Re: Comment Of The Day: Community Organization Is A Conservative Notion

awilensky — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:26:21 -0000

Fred,

Needless to say, he and we are in your house, and you just go and say whatever the hell you feel. As if I need to tell you.

Re: What's Ailing Google's Stock Price?

awilensky — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:16:56 -0000

The market is acting as if earnings and P/E are no longer a true signal for owning the actual shares, whereas professional traders that know how to collar and hedge are making hay off the volatility.

Re: rizzn's personal blog

awilensky — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:56:41 -0000

video no work

Re: Chrome, Android, and The Cloud

awilensky — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:52:33 -0000

Someone, somewhere got religion and said, "we gotta get serious about Javascript execution." Mozilla has improved the bench's by about 70% already in 3.01, and they are releasing a JIT that will blow that away.

Google knows that the execution environment for JS has to be as robust a runtime environment as an exe is to a PC running in ring 0. So, even with the improvements in Firefox's JIT, Google is taking matters into their own hands to make sure that JS apps of the future are unhindered by any developments other then their own - and this also insulates them from the Flash encroachment.

Now, as to the usability of the language as a general development framework, we have sproutcore (immature but sexy), and we have better learning resources, such as better books. I think that JS is the next Ruby, or that new languages that compile for the new class of 'JIT's on fire", will be the NEXT BIG THING,

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

awilensky — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:01:47 -0000

and better looking

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

awilensky — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:01:30 -0000

Another person in the campaign who is faster thinking than me.

Re: Axes To Grind

awilensky — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:09:48 -0000

There is a venture for you, pappy Fred, "GeneralGrinding.com", outsource that chip on your shoulder to us, and get on with yo' life. We will file the complaints, spam the support forums, and pester the gentile venture capitalists for you, even though they are NOT responsible for your Web20 grief.

Re: louisgray.com: Specialized Perceived Value Trumps Real World Value

awilensky — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:28:02 -0000

Overall, it is a small and specialized constituency indeed that finds it compelling to adopt multiple social networks, or to spend real work or personal time on Facebook. There is no mission critical personal or professional use case, with the exception of the young adopters and techno elite.

We know that the advertising inventory on these services under performs sponsored search - so there. When will the real social paradigm break through that these services can add real life value to population at large? Maybe the younger generation that will grow into it as an alternative to the stale broadcast media that is run by my generational contemporaries.

However, the new and slick "social media" consultants", that are selling a bill of goods to brand managers are getting nowhere, and the customers are just starting to get wise.

Re: louisgray.com: The iPhone Cannot Be The End. So What's Next?

awilensky — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:56:30 -0000

I can give you a glimpse, because in 2006-7, I had unprecedented access to a top mobile phone and network services R&D lab. What they disclosed in their road maps and prototypes is, not surprisingly, hardly guessed at today - the tech press is so nearsighted!

But if I disclosed to you what they showed me, you would say, "of course"! Why didn't we think of that!

I would take too long to detail what I saw, and a portion is under NDA for another 120 days, but I can say this, and fill in the details on my blog in a few months.

Let's say you pocket internet phone device had the computational power of a dual socket, 8 core desktop machine? Lets say it had 4GB of ram, and 128 GB of NV storage.

When you get to office, home, or a remote location for work or play, the device lights up and connects to a monitor, keyboard etc. - all wireless.

Let's further say that it will be able to run, via emulation, any popular program from the major 3 OS families.

Stay tuned.

Re: louisgray.com: For My Next Trick, Watch This Comment Disappear!

awilensky — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:07:22 -0000

I respect sites that let comments stand - whatever they say, with your caveats of the merely offensive, empty, or spam as exceptions. I always respected TechCrunch for letting the worst personal attacks on M. Arrogant stand right there. It shows class.

Then there are A-list snobs like K. Swisher, who employs a site cop to remove anything she takes exception to. That kind of cowardice shows a true contempt of the 4th Estate that she thinks she represents.

Re: louisgray.com: Could UDO Be The Next Killer App?

awilensky — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:55:30 -0000

There are already numerous protocols for industrial and residential control systems - all have SDKs for multiple platforms, and so, such a systems that you speak of would not have to be made of whole cloth. The key-less entry systems used for luxury cars uses a system made by - oh brain lock - I remmeber and post it later. Point is that its not the hardware, but the solution domain is well mature. Oh, It's Maxim semiconductor.

Re: louisgray.com: Relax, Bloggers: Nobody Is Keeping Score, and There's No Quota.

awilensky — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:22:32 -0000

I think the one piece of good advice I got from listening to the Gilmore gang was that the beauty of RSS was that it lets folks know that you have something to say, when you are ready to say it.

Re: rizzn's personal blog

awilensky — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:29:25 -0000

Gladkova not speak good English:

Sensationalist and Sensational are the same in Ruskie: Horoshow

Re: rizzn's personal blog

awilensky — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:10:45 -0000

Bottom line, it's getting to be a crappy business. It's being taken over corp comm types, and fluff bloggers that essentially repeat ad nauseum other stories. Then you have the "obvious story bloggers" that post on highly technical subjects that they are all of 5 minutes acquainted.

Re: rizzn's personal blog

awilensky — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:45:27 -0000

I dont get it Rizz - you reported a story on the blogging industry that is current, and timely. There are several bits flying about blogger compensation (the Gawker shakeout), so I dont get why you are getting shit from these people?

One honest, hard working man always gets screwed by those with the most to lose.

Re: louisgray.com: How One Would-be Web Friend Turned Into a Stalker In Months

awilensky — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:59:59 -0000

Louis:

Forget that guy, why won't you work with ME ME ME? huh? ME?

Seriously, if the problem continues, maybe a few of us will need to give him an in-person, Silicon Valley, lead-pipe pitch. If you know what I mean.