My parents had a lightbulb in their garage that was there when they bought the house and never burned out in the subsequent 40 years and still hasn't burned out.
Add some stone tablets and a good back story and you could start your own religion.
The iPhone revolutionized the phone business. The iPad revolutionized the tablet market. You may or may not like them as products, but that much is incontrovertibly true.
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That list is interesting in that apart from the top handful there's not a lot of money there. What happened to all the "Microsoft Millionaires"? Did they all cash out?
Instead we are seeing the slow-motion theft and destruction of the entire company. It started with appeasement. Then this move, accompanied by some BS hand-waving about the future of the other technology. That was necessary to keep the in-house people from a full-scale revolt. Then those systems will be, when the time is right, "deprecated," and divisions laid off, and it becomes an all-Microsoft OS operation. The company will steadily lose market share and money and eventually get bought for a song, ala Palm. But along the way they'll have shoveled a big pile of money Microsoft's way, while at the same time allowing Microsoft to prolong its own fantasy of being relevant in the future.
I agree this smells of a developer that thinks they've come up with a great innovation that won't work in practice.
I think it's clever and will work quite well. If you've got a few dozen "bumps" in the same location it's probably a good idea to send out a crew to inspect it, as obviously something is going on.
You can read what Matias Duarte himself has to say about it.
As for the potential tablets in particular, Duarte notes that those who initially brushed aside Apple's iPad when it debuted a year ago underestimated the impact of what Apple did in bringing the multi-touch screen to a larger-size device.
"I think those skeptics were short-sighted," Duarte said. "That's the genius of what Apple achieved with that iPad."
Taken from this article, which came out after my post, else I would have cited it originally.
it's better if everyone sees practically the same movie. If we're all seeing slightly different views, then we won't all have quite the same experience.
Exactly. That's why theatre plays and live shows have never become popular.
You just use your inflated number for promotional purposes, in order to attract more real members.
They would also get some of those "members" to sign up by sending them an email saying "this hot girl is interested in you. Upgrade to a 'platinum' account to view her profile and to respond."
The whole Goldman-Sax deal reeks of manipulation, if not outright fraud. GS makes a huge fee on these private placement deals. But first they need to establish a market value for what they are selling. So they buy it themselves! By paying that extremely high price they've established the current "proper" value for the shares. Then they turn around and "place" (sell) the other 1.5 billion worth, raking in a fee of perhaps 1/3.
The kicker is that the shares they themselves bought are unrestricted. The ones they are placing have big restrictions on selling. So now, once those restricted shares are placed they can turn around and dump the shares they bought. But those are worth quite a bit more, as they are unrestricted.
Goldman-Sax might rake in as much as a cool billion on this deal, while Facebook not only gets the cash, but they also get to enjoy this shiny new "valuation" in further deals.
I didn't realize the stylus I use on my iPad (or any of the other styluses that can be bought) wasn't stylus input. Thanks for pointing that out for me.
He would have pointed it out earlier but he didn't have a stylus.
What is there to add to the databse in the first place?
Eventually, every transaction you ever do. It'll start with just the details needed for verification, but then later when a tiny tax is added to all transactions then they will need to know the amount and transaction type. "For tax purposes only," of course.
it'll already be so absurdly high, that eventually, when it tanks, a lot of profit will be made.
Even when they're right, a lot of people go broke waiting for the market to wise up to what they already know. Because sometimes the market stays "wrong" for a long, long time. It happened over and over again in the 90s. Netscape, for instance, was wildly overvalued at its IPO. And if you'd have shorted it you'd have gotten killed as it doubled and doubled. But if you waited a while you'd have made a fortune.
I think the opposite is true. It will be a boon to the small developer. Reduced overhead, no payment handling headaches, and reduced piracy make it much easier for a small shop to compete. The 30% is a bargain.
I would have expected that a self proclaimed brilliant person would know the difference between 'could care less' and the proper use as in 'couldn't care less'.
The difference is that one is literal and the other sarcastic - but they make the same statement.
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Add some stone tablets and a good back story and you could start your own religion.
The iPhone revolutionized the phone business. The iPad revolutionized the tablet market. You may or may not like them as products, but that much is incontrovertibly true.
That list is interesting in that apart from the top handful there's not a lot of money there. What happened to all the "Microsoft Millionaires"? Did they all cash out?
Instead we are seeing the slow-motion theft and destruction of the entire company. It started with appeasement. Then this move, accompanied by some BS hand-waving about the future of the other technology. That was necessary to keep the in-house people from a full-scale revolt. Then those systems will be, when the time is right, "deprecated," and divisions laid off, and it becomes an all-Microsoft OS operation. The company will steadily lose market share and money and eventually get bought for a song, ala Palm. But along the way they'll have shoveled a big pile of money Microsoft's way, while at the same time allowing Microsoft to prolong its own fantasy of being relevant in the future.
I think it's clever and will work quite well. If you've got a few dozen "bumps" in the same location it's probably a good idea to send out a crew to inspect it, as obviously something is going on.
Taken from this article, which came out after my post, else I would have cited it originally.
Considering how difficult it has been to make Android "tablet-ready," I'd say you're underestimating it.
Exactly. That's why theatre plays and live shows have never become popular.
You don't have to pay money to Facebook in the same way that a product does not have to pay a store to sit on its shelves.
They would also get some of those "members" to sign up by sending them an email saying "this hot girl is interested in you. Upgrade to a 'platinum' account to view her profile and to respond."
The kicker is that the shares they themselves bought are unrestricted. The ones they are placing have big restrictions on selling. So now, once those restricted shares are placed they can turn around and dump the shares they bought. But those are worth quite a bit more, as they are unrestricted.
Goldman-Sax might rake in as much as a cool billion on this deal, while Facebook not only gets the cash, but they also get to enjoy this shiny new "valuation" in further deals.
What a racket.
He would have pointed it out earlier but he didn't have a stylus.
Some of us (not many, I'm sure) think of the Jimmie Rogers song.
That's what I was getting at with "transaction type," but yours is much more clear.
Which model is it? I can't even find it online.
Eventually, every transaction you ever do. It'll start with just the details needed for verification, but then later when a tiny tax is added to all transactions then they will need to know the amount and transaction type. "For tax purposes only," of course.
It's hard to believe there exists an obvious question for which the answer is "I'll happily eat Long Pig."
Even when they're right, a lot of people go broke waiting for the market to wise up to what they already know. Because sometimes the market stays "wrong" for a long, long time. It happened over and over again in the 90s. Netscape, for instance, was wildly overvalued at its IPO. And if you'd have shorted it you'd have gotten killed as it doubled and doubled. But if you waited a while you'd have made a fortune.
I've noted that pop-culture references to more than 40 years ago do not do well here on the slashdots. (Modulo Star Trek, of course.)
Maybe because of your sig he figured it would be ok this time.
I think the opposite is true. It will be a boon to the small developer. Reduced overhead, no payment handling headaches, and reduced piracy make it much easier for a small shop to compete. The 30% is a bargain.
The difference is that one is literal and the other sarcastic - but they make the same statement.
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I paid $125 to upgrade my Atari 400 from 8K to 32K.
Are you saying that even with DST dawn breaks at 5am? Where do you live? Greenland?