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cakesy
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Comment #1428946
Firstly, which droid? There are at least 2. I have heard good things about the nexus screen, and also bad things, because of the unique pixel placement. Maybe blame the manufacture…
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Comment #1425344
Pixar targets the lowest common denominator, and make movies (I am not insulting them, their movies are amazing, and also target an intelligent audience). Ren & Stimpy creators mad…
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Comment #1423345
The UK is starting to look better, now the conservatives are in, and the abolished their card. The first people that were going to be affected, were foreign nationals, they all had…
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Comment #1419780
This is true, but Apple has a lot of money, and the recent two buys of chip companies hasn't made a great deal of sense. Sure, they use these companies, but it means they no longer…
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Comment #1377195
No price, which is going to be a big selling point. They can't make these things that cheap, surely. I can't see it being less than $400.
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Comment #1371299
I would say yes, the vast majority. Of legal music buyers anyway. Apple is has been the biggest music seller in the US for the last 2 years, it is now bigger than the next 2, Walma…
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Comment #1371290
Reminds me of when Microsoft started to give away its browser, thus dooming Netscape. You used to have to pay for browsers in the old days. I can't see MS coming back form this, th…
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Comment #1366990
Yeah, everybody is going to want to buy an unheard of OS, with 20 apps for it. People know about apps these days, and it is a huge boon.
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Comment #1337505
The problem is, that I have a feeling that farmville players are not the most technically minded.
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Comment #1337502
It is amazing, yes. But it hasn't just turned up last week. From calculators, to ediaries, to original Palm with its 25Mhz Dragonball Processor, iPaq with its 200mhz processor, the…
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Comment #1333130
He wasn't doing arbitrage. He was investing in companies in that he thought were going up in stock price. Clearly he was researching different companies, and finding ones that he t…
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Comment #1333123
You shouldn't be investing this way, if you need to get your money back in the short term. Only invest in companies if you can afford to leave that money there, for a reasonable pe…
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Comment #1324120
Really? The first thing I though was that it was a cheap chinese copy of a macbook, just as they copy the iPhone. It is not as sleek as a macbook. Lets see if they get the track pa…
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Comment #1322749
No, that is what one of the big complaints are. And while kids have parents, a lot of parents aren't that stupid. But, do you really think kids know about android?
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Comment #1320938
It is very useful to the people involved, in that they make a lot of money. It may not be useful to the economy, or society.
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Comment #1307651
Ask me what the secret to comedy is. "What is the sec..." Timing!
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Comment #1304045
Were you trying on a macbook?
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Comment #1292577
He could have just kept all his notes on the back of those stock certificates. Easy.
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Comment #1292312
Exactly, someone who gets it. Apple may have lost millions of dollars because of this release. It is so hard tell the loss due to this. It certainly makes Apple security methods se…
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Comment #1290664
It is much better to get higher profit on lower revenues.
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Comment #1290656
Have apple started screwing over lots of companies yet? (Well, apart from Adobe, and that is debatable) Mac OS is still a great system, sure iPhone/iPad/Touch is quite locked down,…
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Comment #1286823
I don't see much excessive punishment, they did rough him up, take him out the back and break his fingers, or even march him out of the store. Also, like a lot of big companies, th…
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Comment #1283621
You don't need a reason why they haven't bought Apple yet, you need a good reason for them to buy Apple? I can't think of an obvious reason for them to do that?
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Comment #1269389
Sorry, MOO was ok, but it didn't have the depth of civilization. It was a simplified version of the Empire building strategy. So many things wrong with it, I would suggest you do n…
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Comment #1269387
No reason to suspect that. He cleared something up for me, he mentioned that he new, before he had accepted, that the financing could fall through. If everyone new that, then that …