If the price is right and the information is valuable, then the public will pay. I pay to subscribe to Thestreet.com because the insight by the writers there is easily worth 20x the amount I pay for it.
Gee, I wonder why Microsoft or any of their CE device manufacturers aren't part of the initiative. Perhaps because this movement is exactly the development that threatens any sort of monopoly on wireless applications. It will be interesting to see how this pans out. Personally, I'd place my bets on the non-Windows CE camp.
For some reason, I seem to associate black and white with both ease and simplicity of use. Perhaps the point was a bit muddled, but I feel that adding colors is just another step in the trend towards making the palm device into a portable multimedia machine, which I feel is the wrong path for Palm to take. -Andrew
Am I the only one who likes the idea of a black and white display on a PDA? In my opinion, a PDA should be kept as simple as possible. I mean, most likely, the reason to buy a PDA is to make you more efficient. Microsoft lost sight of that with their whole multimedia initiative with CE, and I hope that Palm isn't going down that path. I used to own an E-100, but sold it because I was finding that it was really no better for organization than my old Palm Pilot. -Andrew
Basically, there would be a waiting period. ie. You had to leave your money in for at least a month. We would probably start an investment club account with a major brokerage, and have some sort of system by which the money couldn't be withdrawn unless more than one person authorized it. Many brokerages allow foreigners to deposit their money. -Andrew
Hello. I am a private investor who currently makes nearly all of his income from investing and has been involved in the market for a while. I really consider myself a part of both of these worlds, as I am both a computer enthusiast and an investor. If there was considerable interest, I would be happy to use my expertise to start a partnership that would invest in the companies suggested and would also attempt to actually make a profit for its members. If anyone would actually be interested in investing in such a partnership, please email me at live4sw@aol.com, or mmoin@optonline.net, or just reply to this message.
It seems, perhaps, that this partnership could "kill two birds with one stone", by pooling interested slashdotters' money in order to influence corporate change (I would certainly have a website that would make all of the investment info public, and have discussions among the investors about ways to use our holdings to contact companies). If there is considerable interest, I would certainly consider starting a partnership (a mutual fund would be prohibitively expensive to start). -Andrew Moin
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If the price is right and the information is valuable, then the public will pay. I pay to subscribe to Thestreet.com because the insight by the writers there is easily worth 20x the amount I pay for it.
But they will do it to a degree that is legally acceptable to any governments involved. It's the next generation of "compliance".
What college/school was this at? -Andrew
Gee, I wonder why Microsoft or any of their CE device manufacturers aren't part of the initiative. Perhaps because this movement is exactly the development that threatens any sort of monopoly on wireless applications. It will be interesting to see how this pans out. Personally, I'd place my bets on the non-Windows CE camp.
-Andrew
For some reason, I seem to associate black and white with both ease and simplicity of use. Perhaps the point was a bit muddled, but I feel that adding colors is just another step in the trend towards making the palm device into a portable multimedia machine, which I feel is the wrong path for Palm to take.
-Andrew
Am I the only one who likes the idea of a black and white display on a PDA? In my opinion, a PDA should be kept as simple as possible. I mean, most likely, the reason to buy a PDA is to make you more efficient. Microsoft lost sight of that with their whole multimedia initiative with CE, and I hope that Palm isn't going down that path. I used to own an E-100, but sold it because I was finding that it was really no better for organization than my old Palm Pilot.
-Andrew
Basically, there would be a waiting period. ie. You had to leave your money in for at least a month. We would probably start an investment club account with a major brokerage, and have some sort of system by which the money couldn't be withdrawn unless more than one person authorized it. Many brokerages allow foreigners to deposit their money. -Andrew
Hello. I am a private investor who currently makes nearly all of his income from investing and has been involved in the market for a while. I really consider myself a part of both of these worlds, as I am both a computer enthusiast and an investor. If there was considerable interest, I would be happy to use my expertise to start a partnership that would invest in the companies suggested and would also attempt to actually make a profit for its members. If anyone would actually be interested in investing in such a partnership, please email me at live4sw@aol.com, or mmoin@optonline.net, or just reply to this message.
It seems, perhaps, that this partnership could "kill two birds with one stone", by pooling interested slashdotters' money in order to influence corporate change (I would certainly have a website that would make all of the investment info public, and have discussions among the investors about ways to use our holdings to contact companies). If there is considerable interest, I would certainly consider starting a partnership (a mutual fund would be prohibitively expensive to start). -Andrew Moin