Posts by dfergenson

The good thing is that it is now on the record that Peter Misek believes that Apple will have less cash in 24 months than it does today. This is quantifiable and we can use it to evaluate the his predictive accuracy.

Am I the only person who likes the new Maps app? It fixes a few of my pet peeves including the fact that the old app's route highlighter blocked the traffic. I've found it to be accurate every time I've tried to use it and it's much...

Quote: Originally Posted by matty2431  Einstein wasn't american.  In fact, he was bribed (if you can call it a bribe when a gun is to your head) to come to the US from germany.  Typical american media...

Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta  If performance per $$ was all that mattered... [a] cheap $500 i7 system would probably be the winner.... But you are, of course, right. Performance per dollar is clearly not...

Dare I weigh in on this flame war?   I've never purchased a fully loaded computer before and I almost never buy the latest version of anything--I usually shoot for version X.2. But I did order the absolutely fully loaded...

I do know something about this. Fuel cells produce essentially no particulate pollution whereas gas turbines do produce some (although gas turbines are far cleaner today than they were in the past). In terms of social costs, even...

Is anyone reading this sufficiently "in-the-know" to post a reasonable primer on these nano-SIMS, the standardization process, the competing designs and what's really going on here? A link to an understandable article would do...

The business model will be the least innovative aspect of the product. I guarantee that there will be innovative features that will seem completely obvious in retrospect. If I were designing the Apple TV, there would be: A camera on...

As a security hole that can be exploited by private hackers, I'd find it scary but the ability of a government to search or eavesdrop is not new and is, in fact, codified into the U.S. constitution. Assuming that there is any truth to...

If anyone is interested in listening to an hourlong in-depth expose on patent trolling in all of its glory, here's a link: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack It's from an episode of...