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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 severel…

Although this is surprisingly accurate overall, I think the author is describing the INTJ personality. That's a much better label than "nerd".

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 bu…

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…

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 f…

Oh boy George, here we go again.

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 m…

And today is Halloween, not April Fool's. Gotta wait for the right moment with these things.

"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 t…

"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 w…

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 jo…

Daniel Eran had ripped him a new one, probably on numerous occasions: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/RD/RDM.Tech.Q2.07/23659F71-13A...

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. …

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 …