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• The Netflix/Roku combination works really well right now. Do your seach/selection/programming on the PC and use a simple interface to navigate on your TV.
  
  I think that evolving this model to add more functionality yet keeping the TV interface simple is the key.
  
  You could even have an iPhone or Android app to do the seach/selection/programming in front on the TV but never on the TV itself. In reply to: "High hopes at Yahoo, Intel for Internet-enabled TV"

  December 29, 2008

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• Well said! I'm amazed that anybody would even listen to them.
  
  Why in the world would you choose a person that almost killed one of the best hi-tech companies in the valley as you economic advisor? In reply to: "Ex-eBay, HP chiefs laud McCain's economic plan"

  September 4, 2008

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• > That said, up to this point, every update to Office and Windows
  > has been some type of incremental improvement, not a ground-up rewrite.
  
  Not true: Windows NT has been completely new code.
  
  The problem there was that instead of the modularity of UNIX Dave Cutler choose the monolithic architecture of VMS... but you can't blame a dinosaur for being a dinosaur.:-)
  
  Hopefully Midory will bring some freshness and will also spur development into the Open Source community to go beyond Linux. In reply to: "Microsoft taking a sip of Midori"

  August 5, 2008

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