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Quote: Originally Posted by maccherry Seriously, why the hell would you pay that much goddamn money for an effing app that can be easily reversed engineered and recreated? LOL! I am not particularly arguing with you, but the granddaddy of th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin It's possible that every WhatsApp user is a Facebook user but Facebook has 1.2b users so 750m Facebook users can't already be WhatsApp users. This means there's room to grow the subscription revenue. Also…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram How many of their 400M+ users are already Facebook users, do you think? The market and the analysts –perhaps even you -- appear to be treating this number as 0%. The cynical view is that FB is ha…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Sebastian37 That is pretty good description of the deals value. Yet, I think people are overly critical when it comes to purchase prices compared to market capitalization. Using the dcf method companies like Twitter,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin It's a subscription app with over 450 million users, $0.99 per year after the first year. It'll have some running costs but there's only 55 staff. WhatsApp has a steep growth curve. This will follow t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by redefiler Seems like I was correct in that 1% is more than nothing? Get over it. You know... if buying back Icahn's amounts of stock is such a absolute sure and totally perfect way to make money, I'm sure Apple wou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin It's not shocking that you talk to a lot of people but even if it's 1000 people, it's still a fraction of a community that you describe as being in the hundreds of thousands and I'm sure not every single one…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM You've previously suggested that 64 bit was pointless on the 5s, it's not, and that's part of my complaint on your commenting. Now, it seems you're saying otherwise. 64 bit wasn't revolutionary when it hi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin K40 is 1.43 teraflops, K20 does 1.17: http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla-workstations.html so two D700s with 870 gigaflops each is 1.74 teraflops double precision. The two D700s cost $1000, K40 retail …
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM I don't know how The Economist has become an authority on computer engineering. Maybe IEEE Spectrum will become a source of information on macro economics. I suppose you'll insist that more registers, wid…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX Nothing about his comment was insulting to me. I am happy for you.
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Quote: Originally Posted by PhilBoogie Some thought the White House would never turn Black. And once you go Black...
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX Can you elaborate on that? In my lifetime this has mostly swapped between a Republican and Democratic president every 2 terms. What he meant to have said (no, not a joke): "I wish I die before a Repub…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 What, you mean your 5s DOES have more than 4GB of RAM?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Apple doesn't go out of their way to cater to special interest groups and the small volume of those groups is enough justification for that but that doesn't mean they don't expect anyone from those groups to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 Which it was, in spite of all the negative drivel from those suffering from sour grapes. I don't need some crappy quad core processor overloaded with RAM, requiring a huge battery hiding behind an oversiz…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin What use case? We don't know all the places Apple uses OpenCL. A lot of them are in image processing, which GPU compute excels at but OpenCL isn't limited to that. Is there a fun part to running compute fun…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 Why did you add more blah, blah, blah, when I already had it covered? Your original post said (I translate): no matter what you say, I have decided that 64 bit was great advance, facts be damned. Your last …
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Quote: Originally Posted by marubeni 1. I dont understand the comment about "mathematical algorithms". Of course they are mathematical algorithms, but the use case is very specific. 2. pyopencl: not only do I know about it, but a student of m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hill60 Then, out of nowhere 64bit, but that doesn't really count because blah, blah, blah! Blah, blah, blah being: it makes ZERO difference to the user experience (certainly to my user experience, but I have nev…