jetpack

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Apple outsells Vista with Leopard in Japan(macworld.co.uk)
3 points by jetpack 19y ago|0 comments
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by jetpack 19y ago
So you'd rather be using an inferior OS that has no competition and costs $400? Either that or you have a lot of MSFT stock. The market will take care of itself. Windows is severely overpriced, and at least the low end PC market will most
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by jetpack 19y ago
Although this is surprisingly accurate overall, I think the author is describing the INTJ personality. That's a much better label than "nerd".
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by jetpack 19y ago
Weak dollar is a good thing if you're in the US and making a product or service that people abroad would buy. It's cheaper for them, hence they'll be more likely to buy and will buy more of it. On the other hand if you're in Europe, Austral
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by jetpack 19y ago
This is only an issue for women. Risk of problems with pregnancy (and birth defects) goes up significantly for women as they get older (best time to have kids for women is in their 20's). The male reproductive system is much, much simpler t
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by jetpack 19y ago
I'm really on the fence about this because both arguments have truth to them. If you look at many successful companies, they were often founded by two people. However you'll also find that usually one of the founders leaves eventually (usua
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by jetpack 19y ago
Oh boy George, here we go again.
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by jetpack 19y ago
Car makers have a very low profit margin. Toyota has about 7% (and that's very high for cars -- GM has like 1%). Google has about 30% profit margin. There's definitely a lot more money in cars in general (in terms of revenue), but Google's
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by jetpack 19y ago
And today is Halloween, not April Fool's. Gotta wait for the right moment with these things.
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by jetpack 19y ago
"The laptops were designed specifically to run Linux programs. If the machines run only Linux, Microsoft will lose an opportunity to expose tens of millions of children worldwide to its Windows system." Sounds like a great opportunity for d
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by jetpack 19y ago
"More than 80 percent of Vista sales were through sales of new PCs, which shows how powerful that franchise continues to be." Huh? Powerful franchise? People buying new computers without any choice of not getting Windows shows that Vista is
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by jetpack 19y ago
Not only could Woz not start Apple without Jobs, he would NOT have started it at all if his friends didn't convince him to join Jobs as a co-founder. He didn't want to leave his job at HP (although he may have left partly because HP refused
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by jetpack 19y ago
Daniel Eran had ripped him a new one, probably on numerous occasions: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q2.07/23659F71-13A...
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by jetpack 19y ago
I don't know the details about the hacked iPhone bricking, but it's not so far fetched that whatever Apple does to update the (hacked) firmware simply happens to brick the device. I don't see why they wouldn't simply revert the device back
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by jetpack 19y ago
Old habits may die hard but they will also be detrimental to you. When cars were invented, there must've been people who said "I think I'll stick to horses until they work out the kinks in those car things". Those people probably didn't go