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Quote: Originally Posted by bcode Keep in mind that Al was also hand picked... One of only 7 people in the world that Steve trusted enough to put on the Board. Regardless of how you feel about his politics, this has to speak for something. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by bloggerblog Hey!! I too want to work at the 300,000 square feet research facility. (We assume you meant 3,000,000 sq. ft. as round-off size for the Apple headquarters footprint.) For your edification, just go o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mbarriault I disagree with enterprise being double-speak. I work with some people at the Perimeter Institute (a theoretical physics research facility in Waterloo founded and funded by RIM), and they issue all employees…
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Quote: Originally Posted by gprovida Apple has a finely tuned supply chain process for advanced technology, diversified sources, and strong competitive pricing negotiations with its vendors, including SAMSUNG. While strategic market competit…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sprockkets There was no pool in the MPEG2 days; that's why to avoid this crap they made the pool of MPEGLA, though they disclaim that the pool may not be 100% and has no guarantee of patent lawsuits. By the way, MP…
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Quote: Originally Posted by FlorianMueller I've reviewed the complaint and published my analysis here: http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010...ultimedia.html I also emailed it to AppleInsider but not sure if the author of the article here rece…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Realistic Total BS IMO! Of all the Apple carriers a small (in comparison) Mexican carrier is privy to Apple's plans... ya right. iphone 4 antennae can pick up a surprising amount of chat south of the border, besides…
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Quote: Originally Posted by talksense101 You are comparing Apples and Oranges. PDF is a published standard. Adobe's reader (aka bug infested bloatware ) is just one implementation of a viewer. Apple's PDF implementation has no dependency on …
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Quote: Originally Posted by sheff hiding cell towers in church steeples is another favorite trick -- in frisco there's supposedly one in st. paul's in noe valley (where sister act was filmed), but if so it's only helping us out only a littl…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rbonner This seems like poking Steve with a stick to see if he get's pissed. so how will lenovo do against apple director ms. jung?
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Quote: Originally Posted by lowededwookie I don't necessarily agree. If everyone shared and shared alike then technology would progress exponentially as ideas are passed around and built upon. As such the technology becomes better and cheaper as …
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FYI: Steven Chu's editorial introducing the 25 Sept. issue of Science themed on carbon capture and sequestration is reproduced here: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=163040886856 (going to the original source at sciencemag.org itself…
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Although ZFS has been around for almost five years at Sun, sometimes it's still treated as a research project. E.g. to answer (real or perceived) threats from storage competitors like NetApp, Sun is now playing with de-duplication, a marketi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by teejaysplace24 I find it interesting that this information was "leaked" to Dow Jones, of all places, which really isn't an all-star in the rumours game. I also noticed that APPL stocks jumped about $4 this morining...…
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As a denizen of the overflow room, I thank Prince McLean for his more detailed commentary than the off-the-cuff remarks I posted in another thread. McLean's report rings true. Those who think Tim Cook seems uninspiring may be underestimatin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich Was not aware of that article. Thanks. Correction, the piece about Buffett's dwindling cash pile (which doesn't mention Apple) is from Barron's, not Wall St. Journal: http://online.barrons.com/…
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I just returned from the event. There's really nothing "material" to report -- even the usual gadflies (especially Mr. Ehrlich, the dude who disses Al Gore, the unions, and "socialist" shareholders) trotted out the same old stuff. The big eve…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram Can you point to some links? The Education Store in apple.com, for instance, does not seem to offer such double-dipping. The only option seems to be to click on the "Shop Now" under "TODAY ONLY" and …
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Makes sense; please realize that there 1000+ iPhone companies such as Genentech, where, given the choice between RIMM and Apple, the Blackberries pile up as so much "E-waste".
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Quote: Originally Posted by Daniel0418 Please re-read YOUR post in 6 months and see how wrong you are. There is no expansion in foreign markets. That's one glass-half-empty vote for the meaninglessness of any forthcoming Apple iPhone deal in…