Posts by Kolchak

Quote: Originally Posted by mcfudge I'm so glad that RIM has released OS 2.0 with its several new features and fixes. Too bad I purchased only 3 PlayBooks and not more -- so happy to also support a Canadian technology company. So...

RIM is no Amazon. They can't sustain selling below cost for very long. This is probably just clearing out the inventory. Once it's all gone, owners are going to be stuck with an orphan device. Not that it has much support even now.

One thing I don't understand is why Apple doesn't give educational institutions a bigger discount than their usual, pitiful "educational" discount. Unlike individual students, these places are buying them in large quantities...

Bunch of youngsters around here, it seems. Proves the axiom yet again that the one thing jaded Americans like more than a rags to riches story is a riches to rags story. This is actually a sad time. It wasn't that long ago when the name...

Quote: Originally Posted by Cpsro N.B. Fuel cell reactions are reversible--it's not necessarily the case that a fuel cell would need to be replenished by the addition of some unwieldy liquid. Just plug in a charger to drive the reaction...

Quote: Originally Posted by ankleskater As for releasing world changing ideas without patents, you might not have heard of the university system where academic researchers come up with most of the truly ground-breaking ideas and publish...

Quote: Originally Posted by ankleskater The answer is very simple. Truly innovative people cannot help themselves. They are unhappy if they don't invent something new. Most of the time, innovation does not come from someone sitting...

Quote: Originally Posted by Orlando Because the best way to sell more items is to continually create new and better products. Keep innovating and you stay ahead of the competition. You're deluded. Do you really think the little guy...

Quote: Originally Posted by Orlando The problem for Htc is Apple has patents that were granted long before Htc even existed. So just because you start a new company, you shouldn't have to worry about existing patents? That would make...

I guess I'm not surprised. Steve always thought different, and not necessarily right when it came to his own health. According to one early biography of him released back in the 1980s, he once thought carrots were the perfect food, so he...