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Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the 5th floor of 45 rue Laffitte, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. He was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet, both of them second-generation Parisians. On 20 May 184…
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Hmm. So if you reduce the price of something, there is a chance that you might sell more of them. People like to come on this board and mock analysts, but that's the value of expert opinion right there.
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Quote: Originally Posted by big 2. The English, to me, are an enigma. They have some wonderful car designs - the Jaguars and the Range Rovers are beautiful and the MG Midget my dad drove in his youth was splendid - but their build quality and r…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum You young's... I paid $1,400 for 48K RAM on my Apple ][ in 1978... And I paid 24 groats for my abacus back in 1423...
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Quote: Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton Yes. No, seriously: yes. The PC makers are historically just common off-the-shelf parts integrators. In fact, the first IBM PC (which later got cloned into what we now call x86 Windows PCs) was itse…
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Ahem. Moving on from the semantics... This trend shows another big advantage to Apple of their vertical integration. For every additional unit sold the OS component cost reduces, as the fixed OS development cost is spread out across more and more u…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cycomiko [Snip] ...as the resellers get next to no margin on the Macs. [Snip] I happen to know in my case exactly what the margin on a Mini was. This was from a small local shop in Portugal that doesn't really sel…
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Not much love for Lion in this thread. Could I ask someone who knows about these things, is there more to Rosetta than just the application itself? Any underlying system stuff? If not, slowing adoption of Lion and pissing off a good chunk of their c…
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I'm in the 84% and will not upgrade until I have no choice when I buy a new machine. The reason is simple - no Rosetta. Dumping a bunch of perfectly functional apps will be costly and inconvenient so I will put that off for as long as possible. Even…
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Quote: Originally Posted by esummers I hope the giant hole in the ground will be good enough to keep people from walking in to it. I see people walk in to the side of bus stops all the time in Chicago. The way things are going here with deregula…
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Very impressive. Once they get it down to just the five panes their work will be done. Presumably things are different in the US, but if someone erected such a structure in the UK the 'health and safety' fascists would be down in an instant demandin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tonton Seriously, out of 100 people who read... I know if you spend time on the internet it may seem that way, but I think there are still more than a hundred people that can read. The number is dwindling fast tho…
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My personal view is that Steve Jobs' greatest legacy to the world is not the technology he oversaw the birth of, because although it had an impact on millions of people, that impact in itself was not so important. Had there been no Apple, there woul…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil What about that guy's post is in any way trollish? He's asking a question that he wouldn't need to ask if he spent twenty seconds and read the actual article, but that's not trolling. Astro-turfing …
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Quote: Originally Posted by elliots11 Please let this somehow lower the cost of SSDs. I was wondering this the other day. I realise it is a completely different technology, but hard drives have increased in size/reduced in price per GB on a r…
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Quote: Originally Posted by iGuessSo Having used Windows for many years, I might not be 100% objective, but I feel that Explorer is vastly superior to Finder for anyone who actually uses the file system. As a developer and enterprise worker, I r…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider But a new survey from the NPD Group also found that just 22 percent of consumers are familiar with the term "cloud computing." Rather unfortunate choice of acronym there as it also stands for narcissist…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism This thread has gone down hill in record time. I blame the Nazis. I blame the hills.
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleLover2 There's something I don't understand. Apple has way more than 8% of the computer market, and WAY more than 8% of the tablet and smartphone market. So does this mean that lots of Apple users don't use Sa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Naboozle Fair enough. Me neither. But it is my understanding that a basic requirement for a patent is that the invention must be "non-obvious" regardless of whether or not it's been documented in the past. Wheth…