The iPhone has really fallen off the radar for everyone but Apple fans.
Wishing won't make it so, Mr. Ballmer.
It sounds like Apple is already starting to pawn off the marketplace thud of the iPhone
By "thud", do you mean the sound of the most successful consumer electronics product launch of all time? The iPhone's already set that record, even if they never sold another unit.
What are you in such a snit about? Pissed off because you didn't buy AAPL shares?
I based my estimate on the reports that Apple had made three million units for the launch, the fact that AT&T ran out of them, that several of the Apple stores did as well, and that those stores are getting restocked daily. I was at the Valley Fair store in Santa Clara on Friday, and I saw a much bigger line than I ever saw for a previous event. Friends of mine who went by that same store today and yesterday have told me that the store looked like the post-thanksgiving rush.
My POINT is that AT&T is turning on more accounts at once than anyone has before, and they're doing a very good job of it.
Keep in mind that AT&T is turning on more cell phone accounts at once than anyone has ever done in the history of the cell phone industry. iPhone sales have either hit a million units already, or they will by the end of the coming week. If they perform at 99.9%, that's still going to be a thousand people running into problems.
Everyone I know who's gotten one so far had it activated in a couple of minutes. The real story here is how smoothly it's going overall.
We are "humanoid" because it's an efficient shape to have.
Not exactly. Our shape has proven to have greater survival value than the shape of our ancestors. That doesn't mean that it's optimal, or even particularly good.
I'm just astounded at your utter dishonesty. Trying to claim that Mao and Stalin are capitalists is like a Christian trying to fob Torquemada off on the Buddhists.
Find ONE Ukranian family that Stalin actually helped,
Hold on there, sport: how do you get from murdered Ukranians to Stalin not being a commie? He robbed them, just as the rest of you pinkos want to rob everyone else who produces wealth, all for the "common good."
dictate the lives of millions of people.
Project much?
Capitalists aren't trying to dictate anything to anyone, they're trying to find out what customers want and offer it, which is how you make money in a market economy.
Oh, that's rich.. You, a self-declared pinko, say I'm living in a fantasy world.
BTW, since you're such a fan of innovation, got anything to say about Lysenko? How about the fact that innovation in every field besides weapons came to a screeching halt in the communist countries?
I've tried to write code in a cubicle, and it sucks, big time. I can share an office, but two-up in a 10x20 is about my limit.
So, if I find myself competing with Google for a candidate, I can see the main lever to apply. Besides matching their salaries, I've got to provide a private office, and make sure that the work is as interesting as whatever they'd be doing at Google.
Hang up and drive, you jackass. You Darwin Award applicants have a nasty tendency to kill innocent people when you take yourselves out of the gene pool.
Is why the HELL anyone is trying to build a voting machine around an unsecureable platform in the first place? If these vendors want to sell systems that have specific requirements for auditability and securability, they can either comply with the requirements or fuck off.
I see you know as little about Buffet as you know about capital markets in general. He made his money buying and holding companies for many years, mostly buying them when they were out of favor with other investors.
That's why the stock market is an evil to stay the hell away from.
Man, you just keep coming up with these knee-slappers. I love it!
going public automatically destroys any entrapreneur's long term goals for a company,
Does the name "Warren Buffet" mean anything to you, sunshine?
Some managers take a short-term view, some take a long term view. The market offers a myriad of choices to the investor, and we can pick the companies whose managers are doing what we want them to do.
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all the horror stories we are seeing?
No, the remarkably small number of those stories. Do the math.
-jcr
The iPhone has really fallen off the radar for everyone but Apple fans.
Wishing won't make it so, Mr. Ballmer.
It sounds like Apple is already starting to pawn off the marketplace thud of the iPhone
By "thud", do you mean the sound of the most successful consumer electronics product launch of all time? The iPhone's already set that record, even if they never sold another unit.
-jcr
What are you in such a snit about? Pissed off because you didn't buy AAPL shares?
I based my estimate on the reports that Apple had made three million units for the launch, the fact that AT&T ran out of them, that several of the Apple stores did as well, and that those stores are getting restocked daily. I was at the Valley Fair store in Santa Clara on Friday, and I saw a much bigger line than I ever saw for a previous event. Friends of mine who went by that same store today and yesterday have told me that the store looked like the post-thanksgiving rush.
My POINT is that AT&T is turning on more accounts at once than anyone has before, and they're doing a very good job of it.
-jcr
Keep in mind that AT&T is turning on more cell phone accounts at once than anyone has ever done in the history of the cell phone industry. iPhone sales have either hit a million units already, or they will by the end of the coming week. If they perform at 99.9%, that's still going to be a thousand people running into problems.
Everyone I know who's gotten one so far had it activated in a couple of minutes. The real story here is how smoothly it's going overall.
-jcr
We are "humanoid" because it's an efficient shape to have.
Not exactly. Our shape has proven to have greater survival value than the shape of our ancestors. That doesn't mean that it's optimal, or even particularly good.
-jcr
Vista is entirely responsive to their customers.
Not really. Dell and the rest didn't just want a resource hog, they wanted a resource hog that customers would actually want to use.
-jcr
This is a good start. Microsoft had to start somewhere in learning to be responsive to their customers.
-jcr
Of course, most spacecraft operate at a lower pressure than that. Saves on the launch weight, among other things.
-jcr
I'm just astounded at your utter dishonesty. Trying to claim that Mao and Stalin are capitalists is like a Christian trying to fob Torquemada off on the Buddhists.
-jcr
Find ONE Ukranian family that Stalin actually helped,
Hold on there, sport: how do you get from murdered Ukranians to Stalin not being a commie? He robbed them, just as the rest of you pinkos want to rob everyone else who produces wealth, all for the "common good."
dictate the lives of millions of people.
Project much?
Capitalists aren't trying to dictate anything to anyone, they're trying to find out what customers want and offer it, which is how you make money in a market economy.
-jcr
If all it does is recylce plastics, that's a commercial value right there. Landfill space is getting scarce in a lot of cities.
-jcr
from my POV, Stalin was a capitalist. So was Mao.
Ooh, good one! Defend your ideology by claiming that the mass murderers who epitomize it weren't really adherents!
You know, I usually try to lead pinkos into reductio ad absurdam, but you charge right into it without any prodding at all.
-jcr
Slashdot seems to have a rather large number of people, shall we say, slightly left of stalin.
I wouldn't say it's a large number. Just enough to be amusing, really. My impression is that most slashdotters are basically libertarian.
-jcr
Oh, that's rich.. You, a self-declared pinko, say I'm living in a fantasy world.
BTW, since you're such a fan of innovation, got anything to say about Lysenko? How about the fact that innovation in every field besides weapons came to a screeching halt in the communist countries?
-jcr
I've tried to write code in a cubicle, and it sucks, big time. I can share an office, but two-up in a 10x20 is about my limit.
So, if I find myself competing with Google for a candidate, I can see the main lever to apply. Besides matching their salaries, I've got to provide a private office, and make sure that the work is as interesting as whatever they'd be doing at Google.
-jcr
Hands-free, my ass. If you make calls while you're driving, you're still distracted. If you need to talk that badly, you can pull over.
-jcr
A CDMA-capable Linux phone is something for which I might pay $500.
Great! Find a million more people who'll do likewise, and you have a business plan.
-jcr
Hang up and drive, you jackass. You Darwin Award applicants have a nasty tendency to kill innocent people when you take yourselves out of the gene pool.
-jcr
Is why the HELL anyone is trying to build a voting machine around an unsecureable platform in the first place? If these vendors want to sell systems that have specific requirements for auditability and securability, they can either comply with the requirements or fuck off.
-jcr
made his money on the short term view
I see you know as little about Buffet as you know about capital markets in general. He made his money buying and holding companies for many years, mostly buying them when they were out of favor with other investors.
That's why the stock market is an evil to stay the hell away from.
Man, you just keep coming up with these knee-slappers. I love it!
-jcr
Creationism is routinely defeated in the courts. What more do you want?
-jcr
The general precedent is that whoever gets there first, and settles there owns it.
-jcr
You don't get busted for not following the spirit of the law. You get busted for not following the letter of the law.
-jcr
going public automatically destroys any entrapreneur's long term goals for a company,
Does the name "Warren Buffet" mean anything to you, sunshine?
Some managers take a short-term view, some take a long term view. The market offers a myriad of choices to the investor, and we can pick the companies whose managers are doing what we want them to do.
-jcr
I can never remember whether it's the anode or the cathode that's the source or the drain...
-jcr