NY's AG started this whole thing and I think it's still being litigated. If Amazon stops doing business with NY affiliates then it may be seen as evidence of admission of guilt or whatever and NY's AG wins. If they continue to litigate and win they can then go back and start up their other affiliates
or nintendo can just sell games in the appstore. i bet selling the software without having to develop the hardware is a lot more profitable. Only reason they couldn't do it before was that Sony was a competitor in the home console market as well. Unless the rumors are true of Apple's game console in development, it's easier to just sell the games in the appstore. 50 million installed base and the device is already more powerful than the DS. The iPhone 3G S is supposed to be very close to the PSP in power
didn't the oil drum predict that Peak Oil would happen in 2009 a few years ago? Hasn't Peak Oil been predicted several times already?
reminds me of some Koreans in NYC in 1992 predicting the end of the world and the coming of the beast and the anti-christ. it was supposed to happen in October 1992. I joined the army in the summer of that year and forgot about it until December when i went home for Christmas break. By that time they changed their signs to predict the end a little further into the future
SL will be $30, but you have to spend a fortune for an Apple branded computer. feature wise they are competative with Dell and HP's if you compare similar specs, but most people don't care about adding on all those options. and most people won't care about upgrading their OS on their PC unless they buy a new PC.
i know if i buy a new laptop it will probably be a $600 Dell. don't care if it's not made as well as a macbook pro. at that price i can buy a new one every year for the price of one Apple laptop
check out the bestselling Will products on Amazon. It's EA Sports Active at #1 followed by the Wii Fit. I bet a large percentage of the user base buys it to work out and gaming for their kids a distant second.
new version of Fit is coming out in a few months followed by an update to EA Sports Active around the holiday season. Take a guess of what the best selling products for the Wii will be for the next year.
and other than a workout machine it's to relive your childhood via Rockband and Guitar Hero
you can unlock almost any phone. problem is we have 2 GSM carriers and 2 CDMA carriers so you can't take your phone to just any carrier you want. some phones have CDMA (made by Qualcom) chips in them and others have GSM. later this year 4th generation cell phone network tech is coming to the US and it's a worldwide standard so in a few years all carriers will be GSM
big difference is Open LDAP you have to create your schema. with AD Microsoft did the work for you and upgrading is easy. if you first deployed AD with Windows 2000, upgrading to later versions of windows and AD apps is easy. MS ships ldif files with any of their apps that extend AD with new classes and objects that do this automatically. saves you a lot of time.
At $199/$299 the iphone is the same price as other cell phones with similar features. cheaper than a few and a bit more expensive than others. cell phone, ipod, email are all old features that everyone expects in a phone at that price.
the killer features are the app store. there is literally an app for everything. if you're lost and need to find a gas station, the iphone will do it. there are even kids games and flash card apps on it to teach your kids to read. and it will work with Exchange Server to get your email as well.
one device to rule them all. and so far only the Pre comes close to being a competitor.
back in the 1990's akamai had this great idea to position data all over the internet for better performance. in 2009 we have people whining that AT&T won't let them stream data from their DVR.
the right way to do this is something like VZ's Get it Now. store the data on the telco network for better performance.
and from personal experience, the military would shut down without powerpoint. you literally cannot go to war without powerpoint. what would you use during Command and Staff every day?
it's still flaky even on windows 7 and there is no reason to have an OS like Windows or a distro like Ubuntu on netbooks.
you need something like iphone OS, android or another micro linux kernel for the always on ability. these things don't need the ability to run every app. apple will do it right where it's going to be an ipod/iphone on steroids but it will be too expensive
laptops are becoming the next desktop. tablets and netbooks are nice to carry around with you.
carrying a laptop around is like going out with a baby. you need to take a bag of junk with you. a netbook or a tablet with nice battery life you just throw in your bag that you take with you anyway. and for the millions of people that commute on public transit it will be a nice way to pass the time. bigger screen to read books, better hardware for games, and you may be able to do some work and sync your docs.
what a tablet or netbook needs to do is not have a boot up time. my wife's iphone is always on. if i want 10 minutes of net time i don't want to waste 5 minutes of it waiting for a netbook to boot up
the iphone is a hit because it's the same price or cheaper than competing cell phones. few months ago when i bought one for my wife i looked at the BB Storm. the data plan was more expensive and once you figured the cost of the extra storage it was the same price or $200 more than the iphone when adding up the price of the 2 year contract.
$700 for what is a netbook is way too much especially if you'll need to pay for a wireless data plan. you can buy $299 XP, Android or Ubuntu netbooks. WTF kind of magic apple pixie dust is this going to have for $700? or is this going to be another case of apple charging more for the same hardware just because it says apple?
unlike PC's people will gladly buy 2 year old cell phones. these are the ones that the carriers give away for "free". as the iphone gets ready to launch it's 3rd gen hardware and software Apple and AT&T are probably going to give away 8GB 3G iphones for free with cheaper data plans to capture the low end of the market.
with NPAC and number portability it became easy to switch phones and carriers and keep your number. The next wave in cell phones is carrying around all kinds of apps on your phone to help you get through the day. Unlike phone numbers you can't take the apps with you if you switch phones, you'll have to buy them all over again. this is a plan by apple to get the low end of the cell phone market using apps on the iphone so they don't go to anther phone OS.
Nokia, MS, RIM and Palm are all going to have app stores with thousands of apps soon. Apple is trying to get people to use their apps first so they don't go to a competitor later
states pay for medicaid and in NY State it's run like an HMO and open to a lot of people like small business owners to buy health insurance. the premiums are based on income, which means poorer people are paid for by others
MS pushed IE because they were afraid another browser would kill Windows as an app platform. it's already happening anyway and MS is content to license ActiveSync to Apple and Google, FAT32 to GPS makers, Virtual Earth and other cloud/SaaS services they have that don't rely on browser or OS
for example more retail stores don't have the cash on hand to buy all their inventory, so they borrow in the short term bond market. if they didn't do this they would have a hard time opening new stores
it all depends on the size of the business. the rules in running a home business are not the same as a fortune 500 company
and raising money via debt is the cheapest way to run a company. every project has a cost of capital usually calculated by the direct monetary cost, estimated returns, etc.
debt with it's low interest rates is the cheapest
retained earnings or cash in the bank is more expensive because investors expect growing earnings
selling stock is the most expensive due to expected returns
a lot of companies like GE have borrowed at short term rates and simply rerolled the debt every time it matured paying low rates. nice until 2008 and GE's rates shot up to almost 10%.
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NY's AG started this whole thing and I think it's still being litigated. If Amazon stops doing business with NY affiliates then it may be seen as evidence of admission of guilt or whatever and NY's AG wins. If they continue to litigate and win they can then go back and start up their other affiliates
or nintendo can just sell games in the appstore. i bet selling the software without having to develop the hardware is a lot more profitable. Only reason they couldn't do it before was that Sony was a competitor in the home console market as well. Unless the rumors are true of Apple's game console in development, it's easier to just sell the games in the appstore. 50 million installed base and the device is already more powerful than the DS. The iPhone 3G S is supposed to be very close to the PSP in power
the name brand games in the appstore are $9.99. A lot of good games for $.99 through $5.99. I'll buy an app for a $1 without thinking twice about it.
I think PSP games cost $50. I doubt Sony will sell a lot of these phones if the games cost $50.
didn't the oil drum predict that Peak Oil would happen in 2009 a few years ago? Hasn't Peak Oil been predicted several times already?
reminds me of some Koreans in NYC in 1992 predicting the end of the world and the coming of the beast and the anti-christ. it was supposed to happen in October 1992. I joined the army in the summer of that year and forgot about it until December when i went home for Christmas break. By that time they changed their signs to predict the end a little further into the future
SL will be $30, but you have to spend a fortune for an Apple branded computer. feature wise they are competative with Dell and HP's if you compare similar specs, but most people don't care about adding on all those options. and most people won't care about upgrading their OS on their PC unless they buy a new PC.
i know if i buy a new laptop it will probably be a $600 Dell. don't care if it's not made as well as a macbook pro. at that price i can buy a new one every year for the price of one Apple laptop
because all the campy crap from the 1990's was so deep and full of substance. like a plumber jumping around for 20 levels is deep
some people may want their kids to look like them. or not
check out the bestselling Will products on Amazon. It's EA Sports Active at #1 followed by the Wii Fit. I bet a large percentage of the user base buys it to work out and gaming for their kids a distant second.
new version of Fit is coming out in a few months followed by an update to EA Sports Active around the holiday season. Take a guess of what the best selling products for the Wii will be for the next year.
and other than a workout machine it's to relive your childhood via Rockband and Guitar Hero
you can unlock almost any phone. problem is we have 2 GSM carriers and 2 CDMA carriers so you can't take your phone to just any carrier you want. some phones have CDMA (made by Qualcom) chips in them and others have GSM. later this year 4th generation cell phone network tech is coming to the US and it's a worldwide standard so in a few years all carriers will be GSM
AD and OpenLDAP are like first cousins.
big difference is Open LDAP you have to create your schema. with AD Microsoft did the work for you and upgrading is easy. if you first deployed AD with Windows 2000, upgrading to later versions of windows and AD apps is easy. MS ships ldif files with any of their apps that extend AD with new classes and objects that do this automatically. saves you a lot of time.
At $199/$299 the iphone is the same price as other cell phones with similar features. cheaper than a few and a bit more expensive than others. cell phone, ipod, email are all old features that everyone expects in a phone at that price.
the killer features are the app store. there is literally an app for everything. if you're lost and need to find a gas station, the iphone will do it. there are even kids games and flash card apps on it to teach your kids to read. and it will work with Exchange Server to get your email as well.
one device to rule them all. and so far only the Pre comes close to being a competitor.
back in the 1990's akamai had this great idea to position data all over the internet for better performance. in 2009 we have people whining that AT&T won't let them stream data from their DVR.
the right way to do this is something like VZ's Get it Now. store the data on the telco network for better performance.
and from personal experience, the military would shut down without powerpoint. you literally cannot go to war without powerpoint. what would you use during Command and Staff every day?
Vista just hit sp2
it's still flaky even on windows 7 and there is no reason to have an OS like Windows or a distro like Ubuntu on netbooks.
you need something like iphone OS, android or another micro linux kernel for the always on ability. these things don't need the ability to run every app. apple will do it right where it's going to be an ipod/iphone on steroids but it will be too expensive
laptops are becoming the next desktop. tablets and netbooks are nice to carry around with you.
carrying a laptop around is like going out with a baby. you need to take a bag of junk with you. a netbook or a tablet with nice battery life you just throw in your bag that you take with you anyway. and for the millions of people that commute on public transit it will be a nice way to pass the time. bigger screen to read books, better hardware for games, and you may be able to do some work and sync your docs.
what a tablet or netbook needs to do is not have a boot up time. my wife's iphone is always on. if i want 10 minutes of net time i don't want to waste 5 minutes of it waiting for a netbook to boot up
the iphone is a hit because it's the same price or cheaper than competing cell phones. few months ago when i bought one for my wife i looked at the BB Storm. the data plan was more expensive and once you figured the cost of the extra storage it was the same price or $200 more than the iphone when adding up the price of the 2 year contract.
$700 for what is a netbook is way too much especially if you'll need to pay for a wireless data plan. you can buy $299 XP, Android or Ubuntu netbooks. WTF kind of magic apple pixie dust is this going to have for $700? or is this going to be another case of apple charging more for the same hardware just because it says apple?
ask the people what apps they plan on using, and build everything around there.
these people are media people, they don't want to remember cryptic commands to do the simplest things
most people who want an iphone already have one.
unlike PC's people will gladly buy 2 year old cell phones. these are the ones that the carriers give away for "free". as the iphone gets ready to launch it's 3rd gen hardware and software Apple and AT&T are probably going to give away 8GB 3G iphones for free with cheaper data plans to capture the low end of the market.
with NPAC and number portability it became easy to switch phones and carriers and keep your number. The next wave in cell phones is carrying around all kinds of apps on your phone to help you get through the day. Unlike phone numbers you can't take the apps with you if you switch phones, you'll have to buy them all over again. this is a plan by apple to get the low end of the cell phone market using apps on the iphone so they don't go to anther phone OS.
Nokia, MS, RIM and Palm are all going to have app stores with thousands of apps soon. Apple is trying to get people to use their apps first so they don't go to a competitor later
http://twitter.com/Astro_Mike
one of the astronauts is live blogging on twitter from the shuttle
states pay for medicaid and in NY State it's run like an HMO and open to a lot of people like small business owners to buy health insurance. the premiums are based on income, which means poorer people are paid for by others
what is the point of closing your account? just don't buy anything ever again from them.
and no one cares anymore
MS pushed IE because they were afraid another browser would kill Windows as an app platform. it's already happening anyway and MS is content to license ActiveSync to Apple and Google, FAT32 to GPS makers, Virtual Earth and other cloud/SaaS services they have that don't rely on browser or OS
you can grow a lot faster by taking on debt
for example more retail stores don't have the cash on hand to buy all their inventory, so they borrow in the short term bond market. if they didn't do this they would have a hard time opening new stores
it all depends on the size of the business. the rules in running a home business are not the same as a fortune 500 company
and raising money via debt is the cheapest way to run a company. every project has a cost of capital usually calculated by the direct monetary cost, estimated returns, etc.
debt with it's low interest rates is the cheapest
retained earnings or cash in the bank is more expensive because investors expect growing earnings
selling stock is the most expensive due to expected returns
a lot of companies like GE have borrowed at short term rates and simply rerolled the debt every time it matured paying low rates. nice until 2008 and GE's rates shot up to almost 10%.